Comment by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia
Pertaining to the statement of Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations
Visa discrimination of South Ossetian and Abkhazian citizens is a part of the double standard policy pursued by the USA in behalf of its ally Georgia’s interests. Discretionally they give in the USA access to the UN international forums to ones, for example, representatives of Kosovo, and refuse to others. Similar practice runs counter not only to the basic principles and norms of international law, but also to understanding of the role and the responsibility of the state that provides a place for the UN headquarters.
However, one should keep in mind that artificial barriers against South Ossetia and Abkhazia built by Georgian patrons’ hands and Georgian attempts to receive political dividends by means of false pretenses and fabrications remove the possibility of conducting an unbiased discussion and solution of the humanitarian problems, Georgian officials deliver demagogic speeches about from high tribunes.
October 22, 2015, Tskhinval