Saakashvili Asks EU to Probe Ethnic Cleansing

President Saakashvili said on October 10 that Georgia had urged the European Union to send a special mission to assess alleged ethnic cleansing resulting from Russian aggression.

Saakashvili was speaking at a joint press conference after talks with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in Batumi.  

The Georgian president welcomed “the most important part” of the resolution adopted by the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on October 2, which deals with alleged ethnic cleansing.

“The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly was the first international parliamentary body to underline the ethnic cleansing in the occupied territories of Georgia,” Saakashvili said at the joint press conference.

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