Georgia Denies Existence of †Secret August War Order’

Original: Georgia Denies Existence of 'Secret August War Order'

Temur Iakobashvili, the Georgian state minister for reintegration, has strongly denied reports that President Saakashvili issued an order authorizing launch of military operations on August 7 “to restore constitutional order” in breakaway South Ossetia. Iakobashvili said the report was “part of series of lies and misinformation” by Russia, which aimed at misleading EU-funded war inquiry mission, led by Swiss diplomat, Heidi Tagliavini.
source: Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 24 March
Spiegel reported on its website on March 21, that Russia handed over to the EU-funded war inquiry mission an intercepted presidential Order No. 2 issued by Saakashvili, which the mpetent members in the commission to assess the authenticity of the document,” reportedly handed over by the Russian side to the EU’s inquiry mission, Iakobashvili added.

Asked if the inquiry mission had requested the Georgian government to hand over the alleged presidential order, Iakobashvili responded: “I am not aware of that… I am not aware if that concrete document in question was requested.”

“The commission has requested all the documents and materials available. We are quite actively cooperating with the commission. The conclusion that will be made by the commission is very important for us. So we are submitting all the available documents and information to the commission. And I want to remind you that it was the idea of the Georgian government to set up this type of inquiry commission. We have nothing to hide, as we are sure in our truth.”

“Russia tries to manipulate the commission, but I still b