LA DOMANDA DA UN MILIONE DI DOLLARI

"Per quale motivo la integrita' territoriale per voi non contava
quando si trattava di approvare lo smembramento della Jugoslavia e
l'unificazione tedesca?"

(Eduard Kokoyty, presidente della Repubblica dell'Ossezia del Sud, che
chiede l'indipendenza dalla Repubblica di Georgia a sua volta frutto
della secessione dall'URSS)


Subject: Quote Of The Day, From President Of South Ossetia
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:21:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rozoff

http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/06/2-TCA/tca-030603.asp

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
June 3, 2003

SOUTH OSSETIAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES OSCE OF BIAS, DOUBLE
STANDARDS

-"Why did you not take into account [the paramount
need to preserve] territorial integrity when you
approved the dismemberment of Yugoslavia and the
unification of Germany?"


Eduard Kokoyty, who is president of the unrecognized
Republic of South Ossetia, has accused the OSCE of
siding with Georgia in the dispute between the
Georgian government and the breakaway republic,
Caucasus Press reported on 3 June. He said the OSCE is
exceeding its mandate in trying to pressure South
Ossetia into accepting the status of an autonomous
republic within Georgia. "Why did you not take into
account [the paramount need to preserve] territorial
integrity when you approved the dismemberment of
Yugoslavia and the unification of Germany?" Kokoyty
asked. LF


ABKHAZIA ANTICIPATES NEW DESTABILIZATION

The Abkhaz leadership possesses reliable information
that the Georgian authorities are planning to
instigate unrest in Abkhazia's southernmost Gali Raion
in order to create a pretext for introducing a
nationwide state of emergency, Caucasus Press on 3
June quoted Abkhaz First Deputy Premier Astamur Tarba
as saying. LF