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Georgia calls for Security Council action on Russia (1st Lead)
Aug 28, 2008, 11:42 GMT
Vienna - Georgia's foreign minister called on the UN Security Council on Thursday to take action against Russia, alleging it had breached international security by its action in her country.
At a special meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Foreign Minister Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili said the Security Council should be act under Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which deals with non-military and military sanctions to restore peace and security.
'It is not only a threat to international security, but a breach of it,' Tkeshelashvili said, referring to Russia's military involvement in Georgia and its recognition of Georgia's separatist provinces South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The minister also alleged that Russian forces had conducted ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia.
'The territory previously known in Soviet times as South Ossetia is completely cleansed of remnants of the Georgian population,' she said. In the buffer zone around the breakaway province, ethnic cleansing was ongoing, she added.
The Permanent Council of the OSCE, the organization's decision-making body, was meeting to discuss recent developments in Georgia and the modalities of sending up to 100 additional observers there.
By Thursday evening, the Vienna-based organization will increase the number of monitoring officers to 22, a spokesman said.
The 56 OSCE members still have to agree on where in Georgia the officers will be deployed for observing the ceasefire between Russian and Georgian forces, as Moscow has so far refused to allow them in South Ossetia.
Moscow's recognition of independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was 'an additional factor that needs to be taken into account' in finding agreement on the modalities of the observer mission, OSCE spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
Georgia's foreign minister reiterated Tbilisi's position that any geographic limitation for monitors 'cannot be tolerated,' as South Ossetia was at risk of becoming a closed area to international observers.
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We have started a free for all becoming NAZI America, why should the Russkie's act any different. Torture, murder, just call them terrorist threats, you know the guys on camels we American's sold our freedom too. Russia invades as an aggressor nation, does this bother the Iraq invasion group, a war of aggression based on false propaganda, and no not Russia are we referring too but the former USA. So, off to Siberia with dissenters, people who look different, ethic cleansing, it sounds so green. In America we are different then the Soviets, when they violate law and principles, they just do it, offering no BS, we American's like to think we are doing the right thing, so we swallow. Wake up America, our country is a sell out of the wrong values; a wave of this behavior will now appear globally, your children the casualty, unless they are part of some elitist group. Welcome lawlessness from the top, laws to protect leaders and their lawyers from war crimes and atrocities of humankind. We are the role model to the once free world, a role where democracy equals torture, lies, violations of law, etc. The new America, NAZI America, is what we have now set other nations to follow, we can invade anyone for any reason, why should they not? The next election, more of the same but dissent mounts all around the guilty. Election fraud allowed to flourish right under your nose and you raise not fit, why should Russians. The Russkie’s call their friends in China and world pogrom is on, the big III but we are part of the bad guys, let us throw nukes at the party for a big bang.
We should show Russia the right way a democracy works by grabbing our leaders heads in the US, politicians to the top, court jesters from the top, business leaders from the top, lawyers that have all devised anti constitutional law for personal gain and kill them. This is after all what the Constitution demands we do when our leaders corrupt and worse corrupt the system. On the other hand, we, and more apathetically our children, will suffer and they deserve it for our complacency if we allow our leaders to do it right in front of faces. I personally will pay for blindfolds and bullets for those found guilty of war crimes or high crimes and misdemeanors against the nation; I would have fried half these guys for exposing Plame or on the torture violations alone. These leaders are not only cowards but also criminals who have hijacked democracy, the Justice Department, the Courts and I say we start an ethnic cleansing of them, just as they do to others, a 'tit for a tat.'
These leaders are sick and wrong and for personal gain, not public. They have infiltrated government in a coup and I believe with our joining the behavior we once condemned (i.e. torture, expose spies, wars of aggression), the actions our soldiers have died to protect us from since the beginning of Democracy, we expose the world to grave danger for the benefit of a few. The few must die, usurped of power.
If you want to beat Russia you have to suck Ukraine´s big dick. It will also cost more money than you can most likely conceive.
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Jacob IsraelAug 28th, 2008 - 13:39:41
Russians are predominantly scum, Israel did well in secretly helping Georgia build it’s Army and air force, the West should bomb Russia to czar times.
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