FM: Georgia Interested in EU Inquiry into War

It is in Georgia’s interests to cooperate with the EU-sponsored inquiry into the August war, Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze said on December 15, a day before the planned visit of Heidi Tagliavini, a Swiss diplomat, who leads the inquiry, to Tbilisi.

“The President [Mikheil Saakashvili] has made it clear that he is ready for the cooperation with the commission, because we are right, we have nothing to hide; we have become the victims of Russia’s aggression,” Vashadze said.

Vashadze also said that “no concrete discussion” of the matter would take place and the Swiss diplomat’s planned visit was a preparatory one.

Prior to the planned visit to Tbilisi, Tagliavini visited Moscow on December 9.

EU formally endorsed on December 2 to create a “fact-finding mission” to probe into “the origins and the course of the conflict… with regard to international law, humanitarian law and human rights, and the accusations made in that context.” EU will provide EUR 1.6 million to fund the mission.

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