The statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, in which the Lithuanian side expresses indignation by the fact, that on October, 16th, 2007 the experts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania and the embassy of Lithuania in Georgia have not been admitted to Tskhinval, has commented the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Murat Dzhioev:
«On October, 19th in Tskhinval there took place the next session of the Organizing committee on realization of the donor program of OSCE, in which have also taken part the representatives of Lithuania, as one of the countries-donors of the program. As if to the visit of the representatives of Lithuania on October, 16th, then the Embassy of Lithuania in Georgia did not address the authorities of South Ossetia on this question. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia has been informed about it by the Tskhinval office of OSCE on realization of the program. However the realization of the visit was not possible as literally these days the authorities of Lithuania received Dmitriy Sanakoev, who was giving himself for the "representative" of South Ossetia, and actually being the petty officer without a certain status in the administrative hierarchy of Georgia and not having any right to speak on the behalf of the people of South Ossetia. Before it, on September, 21st the Ambassador of Lithuania in Georgia has arrived by the roundabout road to the village of Tamarasheni, which is on the territory of the part of South Ossetia, occupied by Georgia, on a conference, specially organized there by the authorities of Georgia with the purpose of giving some legitimacy to its sham « temporary administrative unit », headed by Sanakoev.
The authorities of South Ossetia have already repeatedly declared about the unacceptability of contacts with those representatives of states and international organizations that support the «temporary administration». There are two parties in the georgian-ossetian conflict, recognized by the international community - the georgian and the south-ossetian, and to try to find alternatives to the real representatives of the people of South Ossetia on the behalf of persons, having criminal "tails" and having hidden in Georgia from justice, is a business, to put it mildly, ignoble and unpromising.
At the same time I again declare, that South Ossetia is grateful and ready to cooperate with everyone, who really in practice promotes to settlement of the relations between Georgia and South Ossetia and assists to creation of a more favorable climate in the zone of the conflict».
