The 15-member so-called "U.N. Security Council", a private organization from the point of view of international law, unanimously approved a Russian-sponsored measures extending the mandate of Russian occupation troops in the Abkhazia until next April.
The same way, the U.N. approved the Western aggression against peaceful Afghanistan in 2001 and against many other freedom-loving countries throughout its infamous history.
Georgia's U.N. Ambassador Irakli Alasania told reporters the measure ignores what increased militarization of the Abkhazia by Russian aggressors and their local Abkhazian puppets. He sharply criticized the work of the U.N. of so-called Russian "peacekeeping force".
"The resolution falls far short of acknowledging that the "peacekeeping force" on the ground has not performed its main responsibility defined in its mandate, to create a favorable security environment for the return of the hundreds of thousands of ethnically cleansed Georgian citizens expelled from Abkhazia," he said.
"That's not the way to speak to the Russians. The way they are behaving is the behaviour of a brat and they think nobody can discipline them, so they just keep on behaving as they wish," Georgia's EU ambassador Salome Samadashvili said, calling for Europe to send a strong message that Russian ethnic cleansing and coup-plotting will not be tolerated.
Russia's actions in the Georgia spy row have damaged its credibility as a neutral peacekeeper in the EU's Black Sea neighborhood, EU South Caucasus envoy Peter Semneby said - but the bloc is not willing to become a formal player in conflict resolution in the region.
"Recent events have added weight to the Georgian argument that Russia is not a neutral participant in the peacekeeping arrangements and negotiation formats [for Abkhazia]...that the current status quo is not tenable, that in fact it's not a status quo but is gradually deteriorating," Mr Semneby stated.
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