Moscow rejected Tbilisi’s plan of action on peaceful settlement in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia, Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said. Russia said it rejected the plan as it failed to conform to the ’three-stage’ peace plan voiced by President Saakashvili last September.
“The new initiative of Tbilisi, as it is set forth on paper, did not imply the clearly defined three-stage resolution in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict that was the strong point of the previous plan, voiced by President Mikhail Saakashvili at the 59th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. That plan found understanding in South Ossetia as well,” Mikhail Kaminin, the spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released Friday.
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli presented at the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on October 27 a plan of action — objectives and steps — the Georgian authorities intend to undertake to foster South Ossetian conflict resolution in the nearest future so that to achieve final solution by the end of 2006, Civil Georgia website reported.
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s official said that weakness of, as he put it, “Nogaideli’s plan” is also a demand to change the current negotiating format and to involve in the quadripartite Joint Control Commission (JCC) negotiators from the U.S., EU and OSCE.
“Georgia’s new initiative also differs (from Saakashvili’s three-stage proposal) by an unjustifiably great emphasis on the issues related to defining a future political status for South Ossetia. The achievement of this goal, which in the previous Georgian proposals was postponed for a future period, has turned out to be scheduled almost by the end of 2006 in the new version,” the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Spokesman said.
He said, that all these remarks were delivered to Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli during the latter’s visit to Moscow on November 24-25, adding “it seems the Georgian side accepted them with understanding.”
Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli dismissed on November 22 Moscow’s criticism over Tbilisi’s action plan as groundless. He said that this plan is in line with the three-phase peace initiative voiced by President Saakashvili at the UN General Assembly last September. http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/03/moscsosset.shtml
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