South Ossetian president against US participation in peacekeeping missions in post-Soviet space

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“Provocations that today take place in South Ossetia are aimed, first of all, at discrediting Russian peacekeeping forces and substituting them with third countries’ peacekeeping contingent. It is unacceptable. Because when blood was shed, when south of Ossetia was in turmoil, Russia was the first to come. Russia stopped the bloodshed. Russia did the utmost in order to prevent bloodshed for 14 years,” South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity is quoted by REGNUM correspondent as stating on Sep 18.

“What do the Westerners, and first of all the US, want to impose on us — their own experience of peacekeeping operations in Iran, Afghanistan, or anything else? We do not even want them to get in touch with any peacekeeping operation in South Ossetia, or Abkhazia, or Transdnestr because it will mean blood, terror, and extermination of small peoples. We will not accept any other peacekeeping forces, except for the Russian ones, however hard the Georgian side tries.” “We are convinced that Russian peacekeepers are unparalleled in the world,” the South Ossetian president emphasized.