Yanukovich: Georgia's action against South Ossetia is criminal

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“To us, it is absolutely obvious that Russia was not inotiator of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict,” head of the Party of Regions faction in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich stated Sep 5 at a press conference in Kiev, REGNUM correspondent reported.

“Russia's response to the provocative and criminal action of Georgia was, of course, a very hard-line one. Perhaps, it was not foreseen by Georgia, and possibly, it was foreseen. Georgia's decision to launch war against South Ossetia, at night, by slaughter of civilians, is criminal. Preserving integrity of Georgia by such means is impossible. Attempts to set a task to eliminate an ethnos and annex territory have to be condemned once and for all, condemned forever,” Yanukovich stated.

“To meet this end, the issue of the use of double standards has first to be solved. For the precedent accepted in the case of recognition of Kosovo's independence actually triggered the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia. To stop this very dangerous trend now, an extraordinary session of UN Security Council has to be held, at which new rules have to be adopted, international laws that would, first of all, ensure that double standards are not used. That is why our reaction to the conflict was also intense, but it was due, first of all, to the Georgia's aggression that was allowed against the South Ossetian people. We are flatly against it,” the  Regions Party leader pointed out.