Sergey Lavrov – Geneva Negotiation must be Concentrated on Security issues in Caucasus

Negotiation planned to be held on November 18 must be concentrated on security issues in Caucasus region. ‘Ria Novosti’ informs that Russian federation foreign minister Sergey Lavrov stated about it.
Lavrov called for EU states to take bilateral actions to regulate conflict.
‘Our position is clear: if we want to review ways of security provision, to review issues that will solve conditions of returning refugees, we must stop speaking about determining status and cancel all procedural issues’, - Lavrov stated in interview delivered to radio ‘Ekho Moskvi’.
Russian minister says that if all these are proved, we can consider that working groups created by agreement of Medvedev-Sarkozy will start to work in peace. The group was created to provide security and conditions to return the refugees.
Russian delegation will be headed by foreign minister deputy assistant Grigori Karasin on Geneva negotiations. Karasin stated that Russian delegation has practical, constructive proposal for Geneva negotiations.
He considers that all participants of the discussion, representatives of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as well, will feel comfortably in Geneva.

Aleksandre Lukashenko – It is Necessary to Form New Agreement of European Security

It has become clear after Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, that new European Security agreement must be formed.
Byelorussia president Aleksandre Lukashenko stated about it today – ‘belta’ informs.
‘Global and European Security architecture appeared to be ineffective and recent events of Caucasus prove it’, - the president stated.
He says that the West will not stop its attempts – to force the world into one polar world.
‘NATO makes new dividing lines in Europe and this course in global crisis conditions will not stop’, Lukashenko considers.

Sergey Lavrov – Georgian Government Tries to Flee from Implementing Frame-Agreement Charges

Georgian Government tries to flee implementing the frame-agreement charges, which considers arranging crisis in Caucasus, declared Sergey Lavrov at the Federation Council.
‘Georgian Government tries to flee from implementing the terms, which were accepted by Russian and French Presidents in Moscow’, declared Sergey Lavrov.
According to him, Georgian Government affirms that they won’t use forces against Abkhazia and South Ossetia and that those republics must be in the boundaries of Georgia.