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GEORGIA [14-08-08] : "Humanitarian Corridors urgently needed in Georgia"

GEORGIA [14-08-08] : "Humanitarian Corridors urgently needed in Georgia"

Posté le 14 août 2008 par Webmaster (Contacter l'auteur)

Marie Anne ISLER-BEGUIN, Chair of European Parliament Delegation to Georgia, urgently appealed at a press conference hold this day in Tbilissi jointly with French Ambassador Eric FOURNIER, representing the Presidency-in-Office of the European Council, to the European Council Presidency, after having negotiated successfully a peace agreement between Russia and Georgia, to exercise now the utmost pressure on the follow up.

Tbilissi : Bruxelles 14 August 2008

"Having been outside of Gori city yesterday evening, where I was stopped and impeded to enter the city by the Russian army, and based on many eyewitness reports from Gori city and from a great number of villages in the Gori region, villages of former Georgian population, atrocities allegedly continue to take place. There is no medical help, no food nor shelter for these people. They are hiding in the woods, and the Russian army id not keeping up public order.

Now we need most urgently to install the necessary corridors for humanitarian aid, as foreseen by the peace agreement, to allow the Georgian people to look and care for their refugees, their wounded and dead."

Marie Anne Isler-Beguin insisted on the need for the European Union to put the necessary pressure on the Russian Federation and also at international level to set the peace process into action as scheduled by the peace agreement.

"The next step is for the Russian army to withdraw from Gori and to resume its positions as peace keeping mission. I will ;personally stay here and observe this move, and I want the Russian army to leave Gori by tomorrow August, 15th."

Mrs. Isler-Beguin denied to have evidence on the Russian Army to allegedly be placing mines in Gori or to blast public buildings and infrastructure and thus deliberately create maximum damage in Gori.

For further contact in Georgia : Stefan Pfitzner +32 498 983295 stefan.pfitzner@europarl.europa.eu


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