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Kremlin welcomes report on Georgia conflict, lays blame on Georgia
Sep 30, 2009, 15:32 GMT
Moscow - The Kremlin announced Wednesday that it felt vindicated by an independent report that it says shows that Georgia started a 2008 conflict between Russian and Georgian forces, reported the Interfax news agency.
'If the commission comes to the conclusion that Georgia started the war - as Russia has clearly and repeatedly stated - then we can only greet these results,' said Natalya Timakova, a spokeswoman for Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
The report, contracted by the EU, but carried out by an independent Swiss investigator, came to the conclusion that Georgia broke international law by attacking the separatist zone of South Ossetia last August, but that Russia broke the law by invading Georgia in response.
Russia's foreign ministry also reported itself broadly happy with the report, although it criticized the 'double meaning of some formulations.'
'At the same time, these cannot diminish the main point of the report, that the fault lies with Tbilisi for starting aggression against the peaceful South Ossetia and that Georgia's handling of the situation was completely illegitimate,' read a release.
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