The “border” is strengthening in Georgia, European observers worried
The European Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) is worried. And has just expressed it, very officially.
Indeed, "On 25 November, an EUMM patrol was able to observe 7 armed people, Russians and South Ossetians, accompanying 3 South Ossetian civilians, who were carrying out measurement activities on the ground along the administrative border line, near the village of Ditsi. "" It is not the first time - it is specified to the command post of the EUMM mission -, that such measurement activity is reported. The Mission has consistent indications that this is part of a broader policy of unilateral border demarcation. EUMM is concerned about these “boundary delimitation works”, as they are incompatible with the principle of territorial integrity of Georgia, fully supported by the European Union.”
Can we add that this gesture is not a very encouraging sign compared to the outstretched hand policy of Georgian President Saakashvili, at the European Parliament on Wednesday (1), a somewhat belated policy it is true. But let us also note that it corresponds to a certain state of mind that emerged from several comments by political or diplomatic experts during the NATO-Russia summit on a kind of new tacit "sharing" between Russians and Americans (2) .
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