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.
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Georgia is ready to Participate in next round of Geneva talks Planned on November 18, 2008
MIA of Georgia released the statement regarding the participation in the next round of Geneva talks planned on November 18, 2008.
‘Recently Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has been falsely accusing Georgian side for abandoning Geneva discussions on October 15 and not planning to take part in the next round of negotiations on November 18, 2008. Such claims are absolutely groundless and represent yet another example of Soviet type propaganda aimed at misleading international community.
Georgia believes that the moderators have done an outstanding job in organizing the first round of the Geneva discussions. Existing format of the talks creates all the preconditions for successful conduct of the second and future rounds. Georgia stands ready to continue constructive engagement in the Geneva talks, as we have done on October 15.
It is not Georgia, but the Russian Federation, and its proxy regimes of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region, who are responsible for the suspension of the first round of Geneva talks. As it is well known, Russian side boycotted the plenary session which was attended by the representatives of the UN, EU, OSCE, as the moderators, and Georgia and United States of America, as participants. This was the format agreed among all parties. Moreover, Russian side and the proxy regimes of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region also boycotted the meetings of the working groups, where, as agreed in advance, the participants were to take part on an informal level to discuss the issues related to the security and stability in Abkhazia, Georgia, and Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia, Georgia, as well as the safe and dignified return of the IDPs to their places of residence. ‘ –The statement of the MIA of Georgia reads.
‘Recently Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has been falsely accusing Georgian side for abandoning Geneva discussions on October 15 and not planning to take part in the next round of negotiations on November 18, 2008. Such claims are absolutely groundless and represent yet another example of Soviet type propaganda aimed at misleading international community.
Georgia believes that the moderators have done an outstanding job in organizing the first round of the Geneva discussions. Existing format of the talks creates all the preconditions for successful conduct of the second and future rounds. Georgia stands ready to continue constructive engagement in the Geneva talks, as we have done on October 15.
It is not Georgia, but the Russian Federation, and its proxy regimes of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region, who are responsible for the suspension of the first round of Geneva talks. As it is well known, Russian side boycotted the plenary session which was attended by the representatives of the UN, EU, OSCE, as the moderators, and Georgia and United States of America, as participants. This was the format agreed among all parties. Moreover, Russian side and the proxy regimes of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region also boycotted the meetings of the working groups, where, as agreed in advance, the participants were to take part on an informal level to discuss the issues related to the security and stability in Abkhazia, Georgia, and Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia, Georgia, as well as the safe and dignified return of the IDPs to their places of residence. ‘ –The statement of the MIA of Georgia reads.
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