Settling conflicts has become doubtful: “Spy scandals have already been staged in history to wage wars”

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“International community and, particularly, the UN Security Council have to influence the Georgian leadership so that it ends its tactic of whipping up tensions in the conflict zone — persistently organizing new provocations, of which the extreme was the arrest of several Russian army officers in Georgia – and returns to negotiations,” Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin stated. “There is no other way to solve this conflict, as well as any of conflict of those that take place in the territory of Georgia,” Churkin emphasized.

According to Churkin, the UN Security Council will be closely engaged in the issue next week. “Besides, it so coincided that we will have to adopt a new mandate for the forces, i. e., the UN observers in Georgia, in the first half of October. So we will continue to discuss all these subjects.”

Speaker of the Russian Council of Federation Sergey Mironov believes that the tactic of the Georgian authorities may incite a war. He says similar espionage incidents have already been staged in history as a preparation stage for a state’s waging an armed conflict.

Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Ivanov expressed serious concern with the situation in Georgia who patently incites a conflict with Russia. “Racketeering in Georgia is now practiced on a state scale. We have already warned, and warned just recently once again, both army servicemen and their family members that they avoid going out in the street as much as possible,” Sergey Ivanov commented on the detention of the Russian army officers.

Sep 29, one of the Russian servicemen detained in Georgia – top sergeant Ruslan Skrylnikov – was released by the Georgian authorities. He was brought to the building of Russian army headquarters in Tbilisi, REGNUM correspondent reports referring to the Russian Embassy to Tbilisi.

Sep 27, Georgian authorities detained 4 servicemen of the Russian Group of Forces in Transcaucasus and more than 10 citizens of Georgia. Two more Russian officers – Amir Aslanyan and Ruslan Skrylnikov – were detained the next day. Official Tbilisi incriminates to the detainees espionage against Georgia for the sake of Russia.