UN split over Georgia resolutions

The UN Security Council is deadlocked over the situation in Georgia with the U.S. and Russia rejecting rival resolutions.

Izvor: BBC

Friday, 22.08.2008.

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The UN Security Council is deadlocked over the situation in Georgia with the U.S. and Russia rejecting rival resolutions. Washington says it is prepared to veto a Russian resolution seeking to implement a six-point ceasefire plan. UN split over Georgia resolutions Russia has reiterated its opposition to a rival French text reaffirming Georgia's territorial integrity. Russian says its troops will leave Georgia on Friday but 500 will stay in a "buffer zone" around South Ossetia. There is no sign of agreement over the rival resolutions, one backed by Russia and the other by Western European countries and the U.S., the BBC reports from New York. France circulated a draft resolution on Tuesday, calling for an immediate Russian withdrawal from Georgia and reaffirming Georgia's territorial integrity. Russia rejected this because it said Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia wanted independence. Moscow circulated its own draft calling on the Security Council to endorse the six-point peace plan brokered by France and agreed by Moscow and Tbilisi. "Our draft resolution is a reconfirmation of the six-point agreement, and there's no territorial integrity in the six principles," said Russia's UN Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin. Now Russia's ambassador says his resolution is going into its final form, so it can be voted on. But the U.S. and its allies insist Russia is not respecting the ceasefire plan because it is not withdrawing from Georgia quickly enough. The U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Alejandro Wolff, said under the circumstances he thought America would be prepared to oppose Russia's resolution.

UN split over Georgia resolutions

Russia has reiterated its opposition to a rival French text reaffirming Georgia's territorial integrity.

Russian says its troops will leave Georgia on Friday but 500 will stay in a "buffer zone" around South Ossetia.

There is no sign of agreement over the rival resolutions, one backed by Russia and the other by Western European countries and the U.S., the BBC reports from New York.

France circulated a draft resolution on Tuesday, calling for an immediate Russian withdrawal from Georgia and reaffirming Georgia's territorial integrity.

Russia rejected this because it said Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia wanted independence.

Moscow circulated its own draft calling on the Security Council to endorse the six-point peace plan brokered by France and agreed by Moscow and Tbilisi.

"Our draft resolution is a reconfirmation of the six-point agreement, and there's no territorial integrity in the six principles," said Russia's UN Ambassador, Vitaly Churkin.

Now Russia's ambassador says his resolution is going into its final form, so it can be voted on.

But the U.S. and its allies insist Russia is not respecting the ceasefire plan because it is not withdrawing from Georgia quickly enough.

The U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Alejandro Wolff, said under the circumstances he thought America would be prepared to oppose Russia's resolution.

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