Poland to help Georgia repel Russian aggression Publication time: 26 May 2008, 20:11 The UN Mission's report dated May 26, 2008 says that UN experts in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict have come to the conclusion that the Georgian unmanned spy plane (BLA) was shot down on April 20 by a Russian warplane, -- News Georgia reports.
Earlier Georgia was accusing Russia of that fact, but Moscow was flatly denying such allegations.
According to the UN Mission report, the data of the radar control show that after the Georgian BLA drone was destroyed over the territory of Abkhazia, the plane that shot it down had headed towards the Russian airspace.
The complete text of the UN Mission report on the incident is published on www.unomig.org website.
Commanding Officer of Russian Air Force, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin was claiming that the aircraft of Russia's Air Force allegedly did not take any part in the downing of Georgian unmanned aircraft in the skies of Abkhazia.
Abkhazia's authorities assert that starting this March they have shot down as many as 7 drones. Georgian central government in Tbilisi, however, has accused the Russian side of destroying the aircraft and addressed the international community with the request to assist in investigating the incident.
The conclusions made by the UN Mission mean that the fact of an aggression against Georgia is obvious. This statement was voiced by the country's President Mikhail Saakashvili.
"Today Georgia is in a complex situation because a foreign army, which we have not invited and whose entry here we categorically reject, has entered the territory of Georgia," Mr. Saakashvili said during the press conference with President of Poland Lech Kaczynski.
"Yesterday the UN published the conclusion in which the Russian Federation is directly accused of the act of aggression against Georgia. It was confirmed that a Russian warplane was bombing the territory of Georgia. This was the first case when the international community and the UN especially got straight to the point and without any general phrases pointed at the Russian Federation in these acts," Saakashvili is quoted as saying.
UN Mission representatives in the conflict zone have confirmed that it was a Russian plane that shot down the Georgian unmanned aircraft on April 20.
"I would like to say that we will solve all of our problems. Georgia will solve the issue of the territorial integrity peacefully, but years later we will be reminiscing on who was the nearest to us back in those complicated years, those complicated days," Saakashvili said.
Meanwhile President of Poland stated that Warsaw is always willing to express its solidarity with Georgia and provide support in all things necessary. This statement was made by Polish President on May 26 during the joint press conference with his Georgian colleague in Georgian capital Tbilisi.
"We are always willing to show solidarity to Georgia, we are ready to help them in everything. We perfectly understand that historically Georgia has been standing a very decisive test, and we can see that today it is the fight for the country where many decisive events have to happen and freedom has to be established," Kaczynski said.
Lech Kaczynski congratulated the Georgian people on the Independence Day and said that Georgia, as well as Poland, attained its independence in very difficult conditions.
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