19.03.2009 22:57 | Murat Dzhioev: “By Georgian Tradition Tension Arises on Holidays”

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Republic already more then once paid attention to the forcing of the situation by the Georgian law enforcement in the areas bordering on RSO”, - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of RSO Murat ​Dzhioev said to the IA “Res” correspondent when commenting on the information about the Georgian imminent armed provocation against South Ossetia and the Russian military men dislocated in republic.

“In the Georgian areas which border upon RSO there are illegal presence and increase in manpower of the Georgian armies, special troops and redeployment of heavy defense technology. The provocations against the people of South Ossetia do not stop. And all these events are taking place in the responsibility zone of the European Union observers”, - the minister has emphasized. He noted what “by Georgian tradition tension usually arises on holidays, as we can see it now.”

 “Therefore we call to the international organizations which took upon their shoulder the responsibility for safety for the activization of their efforts in Georgian territory which border upon South Ossetia, so that not to allow Georgian authorities to realize their aggressive intentions again”, - Murat Dzhioev said.

The chapter of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also draws attention to the fact that “Georgian authorities, politicizing a problem, do not let the people of South Ossetia to receive the gas, incoming through their territory from Russia”. “And all these things are going on in conditions of severe winter and against the background of awful destructions, which South Ossetia underwent during the Georgian military aggression”, - the Minister has emphasized.

Translated by Tatiana Inozentseva