Georgia renounces the use of force. A legal commitment dictated by politics
Quoting Victor Hugo (“A day will come when all of you, nations of the continent, without losing your distinct qualities and your glorious individuality, will merge closely into a higher unity, and you will constitute the European fraternity.) and Immanuel Kant ("You cannot be ready to be free until you are free") recalling the foundations of the Rose Revolution (which has lost its petals a little today :-), the Georgian president engaged in a number of charms from the European deputies warning against Russia which seeks to divide the Europe but taking a peaceful unilateral commitment.
Commitment not to use force
« In order to prove that Georgia is definitely committed to a peaceful resolution of its conflict with the Russian Federation, we made a unilateral commitment today to declare that Georgia can never use force to restore its territorial integrity and sovereignty, and to resort only to peaceful means in its quest for de-occupation and reunification. » solemnly announced Saakashvili, who explained that he was once again sending a letter to this effect to the UN Secretary General and the OSCE. “ Even if the Russian Federation refuses to withdraw its occupying forces, even if its militias increase human rights violations, Georgia would only retain the right to defend itself in the event of a new attack and invasion of 80% of the territory. Georgian territory remaining under effective control of the Georgian government. "" We all want – I want – Russia to be a partner and not an enemy. » he added.
A return to reason
For President Mikheil Saakashvili, there was, in fact, no other “reasonable” choice. The day after the NATO summit in Lisbon, which sealed a major reconciliation between the United States and NATO with Russia, he understood that he had not only lost the military battle in the summer of 2008 but that he had, indeed, lost the political battle. What the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, in his sense of formulas summarized as follows: “ Georgia is destined to join NATO. (But) we want to welcome members who have solved their border problems solved his border problems. We do not want to import problems into NATO, we have enough to resolve. »(1)
(1) Full quote: “It (Georgia) is intended to join NATO. You know that it was Germany and France, in 2008 in Bucharest, who opposed it. Mr. BUSH at the end of his mandate absolutely wanted. I draw your attention to what this would have done with the affair of Abkhazia and Ossetia. But they are intended to return, we have no problem with that. Here again, we would like to welcome members who have resolved their border problems. We do not want to import problems into NATO, we have enough to resolve. »Comment: NATO carried out in Lisbon, in fact, a new division, with the establishment of a double anti-missile shield, like in the good old days of Yalta, which could be summarized as follows: it's up to you responsible for ensuring security in the East (NB: the Former USSR without the Baltic countries), for us in the West. The Georgian president wisely draws the consequences.
