President of South Ossetia puts under question objectiveness of West at Geneva talks

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President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity said an allegation of the Georgian authorities that Russia brought about a war in South Ossetia is the highest form of cynicism, a direct form of information sabotage and distortion of facts.  “We face it very often in the Post-Soviet space. They started doing in the Baltics, when monuments to the liberator soldiers, who had saved the Baltic nations from annihilation, were destroyed. Nowadays we see distortion of the reality not only  from the Georgian side, but from European states, which escape a direct and fair dialog and distort facts”, he added.

Kokoity stressed South Ossetia did not trust representatives of international organizations visiting the republic. “When the PACE came, they arrived here four hours late. They were in South Ossetia only within an hour spending the rest time in Georgian villages. For some reason they look for some wounds at the aggressor. They did not want to care about pain of the people, who were subjected to aggression, people who are being killed,” he noted, explaining such behavior of western delegates by attempts of states, which armed Georgia to cover up traces.

“Persons who think that the big Russia attacked the little Georgia have a very poor knowledge of geography. They did not know the little Georgia attacked smaller South Ossetia and Abkhazia and wanted to kill all the people in these republics, most distressingly, nobody discusses these facts nowadays,” the president stated. Speaking on the summit related to the settlement of the Georgian-Abkhazian and the Georgian-Ossetian conflicts, being held in Geneva, Kokoity noted, the South Ossetian side was sure in the domination of double standards during the discussion as the matter of the communication experience with European organizations.

“Talking about the peace in Caucasus and the strength in Europe in general we should abandon such policy, we should listen to each statesman rather than to decisions imposed from outside. I said previously to European parliamentarians that they already had the final document on the table. Even if they did not visit South Ossetia they would have had the final statement, in order to spite the little South Ossetia because Russia stood to its defense, because it defended internationally accepted democratic values, which mean human rights and the rights of ethnic minorities and mostly the right to life that they wanted to take away from us,” Kokoity concluded.