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UNOMIG-Mission in Georgien
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4432504,00.html - 25.06.2009, DW
Durch ein Veto im Sicherheitsrat hat Russland die Verlängerung der
UN-Mission in Georgien blockiert. Die DW sprach darüber mit Iris Kempe,
Leiterin des Büros der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Tiflis:
"... Russland ist Mitglied in beiden Organisationen (UN und OSZE). Im
Falle der OSZE gibt es seitens Russlands immer Kritik an doppelten
Standards, so auch im Fall der UN. Also: Russland ist international ein
schwieriger Partner. Darauf geht das zurück. Dass die Bemühungen
zersplittert sind, ist nicht der Hauptpunkt."
Georgia-Russia: Still Insecure and Dangerous - 22.06.2009, crisisgroup.org
Tbilisi/Brussels, 22 June 2009: Russian diplomatic pressure is
dismantling the critical international conflict resolution machinery in
Georgia, leaving the region facing a potentially explosive situation in
which even a small incident could spark new fighting. The latest policy
briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the situation
ten months after the August 2008 war and finds deep cause for concern.
Moscow’s 15 June Security Council veto of an extension of the
sixteen-year-old UN observer mission’s mandate in Georgia and Abkhazia
and its apparent intention to require the removal of the mission of the
Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) by 30 June
are blows to regional security that will fuel tensions.
SECURITY COUNCIL FAILS TO ADOPT RESOLUTION EXTENDING MANDATE OF GEORGIA-SC/9681 - UN-Sicherheitsrat - 15.06.2009
UN-Beobachtermission in Georgien (UNOMIG) - Geschichte
Erklärung zur Beendigung der UNOMIG durch den UN-Generalsekretär:
STATEMENT ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL - New York, 15 June 2009
The Secretary-General has taken note of the lack of agreement within
the Security Council on the future activities of a United Nations
stabilization mission.
In accordance with this outcome, the Secretary-General will instruct
his Special Representative to take all measures required to cease the
operations of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG),
effective 16 June. He will consult with his Senior Advisors and his
Special Representative on the immediate next steps.
The Secretary-General regrets that the Security Council has been unable
to reach agreement on the basis of a package of practical and realistic
proposals he submitted to the Security Council aimed at contributing to
a stabilization of the situation on the ground.
The Secretary-General extends his appreciation to all the men and women
who served the mission, and to the countries that provided them. In
particular, he expresses his profound tribute to the memory of those
who have lost their lives in the service of peace there.
Russland stimmt gegen die Resolution über UN-Friedenswächter in Georgien - Washington Post, 16.06.2009
... Die russische Handlung legt die Stufe für eine Kluft in den
diplomatischen Beziehungen mit den USA und seinen europäischen
Verbündeten fest, welche Georgiens Souveränität über Abchasien
energisch unterstützt haben. Sie erhob Bedenken über ein neues
Aufflackern von Gewalt in Georgien. ...
Russland sperrt die interrnationale Gemeinschaft aus - Telegraph-UK, 16.06.2009, von Svante Cornell
... Der Zug (das Veto im Sicherheitsrat) diente dazu, die letzte
internationale Organisation mit einer Präsenz in Georgiens
Konfliktzonen zu zerstören, in welche Moskau letzten August
einmarschierte und sie besetzte. Dies wird Russland in die Lage
versetzen fortzufahren, Provokationen gegen seinen kleinen Nachbarn in
Straflosigkeit aufzuführen. Moskau fühlt klar, dass es das nicht
beendete, was es letzten August begann; nur fortgesetzte westliche
Entschlossenheit kann es davon abhalten zu versuchen, so zu verfahren.
...
Russland stoppt UN-Mission in Georgien - DW, 16.06.2009
Mit
seinem Veto im Weltsicherheitsrat hat Russland die Verlängerung der
UN-Mission in Georgien verhindert. Die Beobachter überwachen seit 16
Jahren in Georgien und dem abtrünnigen Abchasien einen
Waffenstillstand. ... Zehn der 15 Ratsmitglieder stimmten für eine
Verlängerung, vier weitere, darunter auch die Vetomacht China,
enthielten sich. ...
Georgiens Abchasien ohne UN-Beobachter unsicherer - Reuters, 12.06.2009, von Matt Robinson
Failure
to extend the United Nation's monitoring presence in Georgia's
breakaway Abkhazia region would undermine stability and leave ethnic
Georgians there unprotected, the mission head said on Friday. ...
OSZE-Mission in Georgien
OSZE Mission in Georgien beendet – Civil Georgia, 30.06.2009
Russland blockierte die Verlängerung des Mandats im Dezember 2008 und
wies auch einen Vorschlag des neuen griechischen Vorsitzes im Mai
zurück. Die Mission war vor siebzehn Jahren mit dem Mandat eingerichtet
worden, die Befriedung des Südossetienkonflikts zu ermöglichen.
OSCE
Mission in Georgia wrapped-up its operations in Georgia on June 30 –
seventeen years after it was established with an initial mandate to facilitate settlement of the South Ossetian conflict.
OSCE had eight unarmed military monitors stationed in Tskhinvali who
were in charge of monitoring of, and reporting on the ceasefire in the
South Ossetian conflict zone. They were pulled out from Tskhinvali
after the hostilities resumed in the region last August.
Shortly after the war, OSCE, including Russia, agreed on August 19 to
send 20 monitors to observe the situation in the areas adjacent to
South Ossetia with no right to enter inside the breakaway region.
The September 8 ceasefire accord,
which is a supplementary document to the August 12 six-point ceasefire
agreement, mediated by the French President, envisaged allowing OSCE
monitors to continue operations inside South Ossetia as it was before
the August war “without prejudice to possible corrections” to the
mandate in future.
Finland, which at that time held the OSCE’s rotating chairmanship, tried to negotiate a deal on the new mandate, but Russia blocked
the extension of the mission’s mandate, which expired in December,
2008. Moscow it wanted the new mandate to reflect post-August war “new
realities” in the region, in particular Russia’s recognition of the
breakaway region’s independence – something which, according to the
Georgian officials, would have amounted to crossing of Tbilisi’s “red
lines.”
The mission continued to operate with 20 of its observers
having the mandate to monitor situation in the areas adjacent to South
Ossetian administrative border till June 30.
In May Russia also rejected a proposal by the OSCE Greek chairmanship, which was based on the so called “status-neutral” formula.
A Brussels-based think tank, International Crisis Group (ICG) said
last week that violent incidents and the lack of an effective security
regime in and around South Ossetia and Abkhazia create “a dangerous
atmosphere in which extensive fighting could again erupt.”
Asked
about the warning, head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia, Finnish
diplomat Terhi Hakala told Reuters: “Unfortunately I think it is
possible. I share the analysis of the ICG… The situation is unstable.
The security situation is a bit better but it is not good definitely.”
UN has also started pulling of its unarmed military observers out from
Georgia, which have been monitoring situation on the both side of the
Abkhaz administrative border for up to sixteen years. Russia blocked
the extension of UN mission’s mandate for the same reasons as in case
of OSCE.
EU Monitoring Mission’s (EUMM) 246 unarmed observers now remain on the ground. They, however, are not able to access into the breakaway regions.
Russia Blocks Georgia OSCE Mission Extension - Civil Georgia, 22.12.2008
Closing
down of the OSCE Mission in Georgia will start in January, as Russia
has blocked extension of the 16-year-old mission’s mandate.
“I
deeply regret the situation,” Finnish Foreign Minister, Alexander
Stubb, an outgoing OSCE Chairman-in-Office, said on December 22.
“Finland has put a lot of effort into finding a solution. The OSCE
still has much work to do in the region. Despite the situation today, I
hope that negotiations on future OSCE activities in Georgia can be
continued next year.”
Moscow
has been insisting that a new mandate for the mission was needed to
reflect the new realities that have emerged aftermath of the August
war. The Russian diplomats insisted on a separate mandate for OSCE
presence in South Ossetia, which would be independent of the Tbilisi
office.
Finland
in its capacity of the OSCE chairmanship, proposed a package deal,
which included parallel, mutually independent field offices to Georgia
and South Ossetia.
“The
field offices would have been directed by a Special Representative of
the Chairman-in-Office, having headquarters in Vienna,” OSCE said in a
press release. “As an alternative, Finland proposed that the current
mandate be prolonged by three months to allow more time for the
negotiations.”
Georgia’s
ambassador to OSCE, Victor Dolidze, said that Russia has even rejected
to support technical three-month extension of the mission’s mandate.
“Now
Russia states that there is no need for continuation of the OSCE
mission in Georgia at all after December 31,” Dolidze said.
OSCE
press release said that Russia could not accept any linkage between the
OSCE activities in South Ossetia and the rest of Georgia, because
Moscow has recognized the independence of South Ossetia as well as
Abkhazia.
Russia
wanted not simply a separate field office of OSCE in Tskhinvali, but an
independent OSCE mission in the breakaway region with initial duration
of six months with possibility of further prolongation.
“Russia
did everything to remove one more international [organization’s]
mandate from Georgia,” Grigol Vashadze, the Georgian foreign minister,
said. “This move is aimed at leaving as few international witnesses as
possible to those illegal actions, which are taking place on the
occupied territories and thousands of cases of human rights violations.”
Russian
envoy to OSCE, Anvar Azimov, said that Moscow was not in fact against
of the OSCE mission’s mandate in Georgia, but its extension, he said,
in the form as it was proposed, would have contravened “the Russian
legislation on recognition of South Ossetia’s independence.”
OSCE
Mission in Georgia, which currently has up to 200 staff, was
established with headquarters in Tbilisi back in 1992 with an initial
mandate to promote negotiation process between the Georgian and South
Ossetian sides. The mandate was later expanded and it now also covers
human rights, freedom of media and economic and environmental
dimensions.
