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Saakashvili calls Russian Presidentâ€™s visit to Tskhinvali â€œshamefulâ€

14 July 2009 13:14 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili criticized his Russian counterpart Dmitriy Medvedev for his visit to separatist South Ossetia. â€œI do not know whether it was Russiaâ€™s response to the Nabucco summit, which is considered by them as their great diplomatic failure, or it was a response to the fact that after Obamaâ€™s visit to Moscowâ€, said Saakashvili. â€œMedvedevâ€™s visit to Tskhinvali will be the most immoral and shameful precedent in centuries. It is shameful because while the leader of small Georgia is out of the country and along with many other leaders of the world is resolving very important global issues, the president of such a big country â€“ Russia, stole into one of the smallest regions of ours South Ossetia and visited, as if for negotiations, unwashed, murderer and corrupt criminalâ€. .
Speaker of the Georgian parliament David Bakradze expressed similar opinion. â€œUS president urged to respect the territorial integrity of Georgia during his visit to Russia. Unfortunately Russian leadership couldnâ€™t meet this message worthy and demonstrated its position by a visit to Tskhinvaliâ€.