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This week, staying in Russia and Georgia, a five-member delegation of the PACE Monitoring Committee to assess the situation after the Russia-Georgia war. The delegation headed by the Chairman of PACE Monitoring, Andres Herkel, Russia, in addition to participating rapporteurs Andreas Gross (Switzerland), and Theodora Bakoyannis (Greek), and Georgia rapporteurs Michael Jensen (Denmark), and Boris Čilevics (Latvia).
The original plan was for the delegation to travel to South Ossetia, but late last week announced the local de facto parliament that does not want to see the PACE delegation Tskhinvali. Andres explorer of the seas Herkel, formal pretext was that the conclusions reached as a result of the visit may violate South Ossetia's image, as does the PACE observers in South Ossetia as an independent non-party to the conflict, but on the Georgia explorer of the seas territory. "But we have always done, and that this conclusion does not depend on whether or not we go to Tskhinvali," said Herkel. "Rather, it leaves us without a rejection for the exchange of information, and we extend it by his stay in Georgia. Georgia's point of view we can, but the South Ossetian Information shuts off the circle, which is really unfortunate and violates their brand image. I'm not going to speculate as to whether such a decision explorer of the seas was independent or consulted in advance with Moscow, probably settle on these impressions explorer of the seas during the visit ", he added.
"Currently, there is no clear answer to Abkhazia, where you plan to ride in the second half of the week. However, the development is such that both South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia separating administratiivjoon explorer of the seas are increasingly closed and guarded by the Russian units. Also, international observers are increasingly "no" said, so I can get home earlier planned, because the meetings are only confident in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday in Tbilisi and Kutaisi, "Herkel discussed.
2008th In August occurred after the war, PACE adopted a number of resolutions, which called on the parties to take steps to normalize the situation. Consequently, it is necessary to evaluate a series of questions raised in previous resolutions. "We can distinguish explorer of the seas four major problem explorer of the seas around the circle. These are the first in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, explorer of the seas the status of the issue (the Assembly has called on Russia unilaterally recognized to take back) the second access, including international observers explorer of the seas and humanitarian access to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, thirdly, the return of refugees to enable and other humanitarian issues, and the fourth war crime status, " said Herkel, which argued explorer of the seas that information collected is placed with a written report. PACE Monitoring Committee is scheduled to be repeated on a regular basis such missions.
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