South Ossetian foreign ministry: Georgia is engaged in absurd wishful thinking
The ministry of foreign affairs of South Ossetia calls on Georgia “to once and for all abandon false hopes and the aspiration to extend Georgian jurisdiction over the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia by any means, as far as those actions only result in dangerous exacerbation of the tense relations between Georgia and South Ossetia.” According to a REGNUM correspondent, the statement is made by the MFA of South Ossetia.
Over the past few days after the Moscow CIS summit, the Georgian side has been actively spreading allegations that they came to an agreement with the Russian government to implement joint Russian-Georgian customs and border control of the Russian-Ossetian and Russian-Abkhaz sections of the state border. In particular, such a statement was made by President Saakashvili at his meeting with participants and veterans of armed aggressions against both Abkhazia and South Ossetia nations on February 26, says the South-Ossetian foreign ministry.
The ministry also claims that there are no reasons for such excessive optimism under which the Georgian authorities get engaged in an absurd wishful thinking. “The Republic of South Ossetia rules out completely any, even a hypothetical, possibility of Georgian border or customs services monitoring the Roki Tunnel that connects the sovereign Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation,” it is stressed in the statement of the ministry.
As the foreign ministry believes, “the Georgian side can hardly account for it that the Russian Federation would sacrifice its own sovereignty and tolerate presence of Georgian representatives in its territory, particularly, at Nizhniy Zaramag checkpoint situated in the Russian section of the TRANSKAM road. Undoubtedly, the Russian Federation and Georgia are in commission to monitor the common border and exercise bilateral border interaction. However, problems of delimitation of the border between the countries are not allowed to be affecting the territory and sovereignty of the Republic of South Ossetia,” the statement of the foreign ministry of South Ossetia says.
13:32 02/27/2008
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