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26 July 2000 - 13:29 AMT

THE FOREIGN MINISTRY OF RUSSIA ASSESSED THE STATEMENTS OF THE GEORGIAN OFFICIAL AS “INJURING” THE RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN RELATIONS

26.07.2000, MEDIAMAX, YEREVAN. During the session of one of the EKOSOS working bodies, which took place in New York, the head of the Georgian delegation, the deputy State minister T. Isakadze accused Russia, saying that it has supposedly participated in the beginning of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and that the Russian peacemakers, located in the border zone, are supposedly not realizing their mission effectively.
This was stated in the press report of the Information and Press department of the ministry of foreign affairs of Russia. “The declaration of T. Isakadze, who is holding a high state post in Georgia, arouses bewilderment in Moscow. For all the past years the Russian leadership has been making active and consistent efforts to help Tbilisi and Sukhumi come to a mutual agreement and find a mutually admissible settlement formula. The very fact that the conflict between Tbilisi and Sukhumi is not settled yet witnesses that the sides themselves haven’t done their best to restore the lost trust. Moscow decisively rejects the accusations of the Georgian top official, assessing them as groundless and injuring the Russian-Georgian relations”, reads the report. -0-