“Deployment of US. observers on the Georgian territory adjacent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia will contradict the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements”, said the Post-Conflict Settlement Special Representative Boris Chochiev, commenting on the official appeal of Georgian authorities to the US. leadership requesting for deployment of Western observers for military monitoring of the territory of Georgia adjacent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia
”In accordance with the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements, only 200 EU observers have the right for military monitoring on the territories of Georgia adjacent to South Ossetia and Abkhazia”, said the Special Representative.
In the meantime, Chochiev stressed that the presence of the US. representatives causes no more surprises. “It is clear that Americans are actively involved in Georgia. One can hardly expect any actions taken by the West to facilitate peaceful settlement of Georgian-Ossetian relations. In Georgia, they now think that with the deployment of western observers they could conduct monitoring of the territory of South Ossetia”, said Chochiev.
He however underlined that “South Ossetia is an independent sovereign state and neither the EU monitors nor Western observers were and will be conducting their monitoring here”. “It is self-deceiving and it might lead to undermined situation in Georgia”, added Chochiev.
