Saakashvili on UN Chief Report on Abkhazia

Original: Saakashvili on UN Chief Report on Abkhazia

President Saakashvili said on June 5, that Georgia reacted firmly and did not “swallowed” removal of “Abkhazia, Georgia” wording from the UN Secretary General’s recent report on Abkhazia. Civil Georgia reports.

 

If it were in 1993, [ex-president Eduard] Shevardnadze would have swallowed it as he had been usually swallowing everything else,” he said. “I personally called several senior officials from the U.S. Administration. We had intensive contacts with the French President, with many European ministers and I want to say – we had not had such support in UN since 1993 as we h uo;I saw that UN Mission last year, when the Russian tanks were approaching Enguri. And I witnessed that the UN Mission disappeared from there in ten minutes. The UN Mission, which evaporates in 10 minutes and leaves the people alone, is not worth of rejecting our rights on our territory,” Saakashvili said. He made the similar remarks about the UN observer mission in January, 2009.

“If Georgia maintains internal consolidation – I mean under conditions of democracy – it is simply ruled out not to return our territories. But it requires our peaceful diplomatic struggle on all fronts,” he said on June 5.

When speaking about “the principle position” of Georgia, Saakashvili also recalled the French-mediated talks on ceasefire with Russia.
  
“Russia sent a document, which said – Abkhazia’s urity.” At that time Saaka