Georgia Condemns Duma’s Call for S.Ossetia, Abkhaz Recognition

The Georgian Foreign Ministry said on March 24 that Russia “has deprived itself of any political, legal or moral right to claim the role of a neutral and unbiased mediator in the conflict resolution process,” after a Russian parliamentary resolution on March 21.

Russia’s State Duma called on the Kremlin in its resolution “to consider the expediency of recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.” The resolution also calls on the Russian executive government to consider “the possibility of the reinforcement of the [Russian] peacekeeping troops in the Georgian-Abkhaz and Georgian-Ossetian conflict zones.”

“Any step taken without the consent of the Georgian authorities in Abkhazia and South Ossetia concerning the modification of the strength of the military contingent stationed there, armaments, mandate, terms, configuration or any other parameter, as well as deployment of any new armed unit, will be considered as an act of aggression, with all the ensuing consequences, directed against the State of Georgia,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

It also said the Sate Duma’s resolution was “yet another attempt to interfere openly in the internal affairs of a neighboring sovereign State and is directly aimed, in terms of both meaning and pathos, against the main principles of international law, the UN Charter and UN Resolutions.”

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