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| 02.02.200608:35 (GMT) | | Georgia's U.N. Ambassador Revaz Adamia Wednesday in New York expressed serious concern about what he called a "serious change" in Russia's position regarding some former Soviet republics, RBC online edition reports referring also to Associated Press, on February, 2. According to the media, from the United Nations, Georgia's ambassador reacted sharply to comments made this week by Russian President Vladimir Putin and, in his turn, accused Russia of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the secessionist Georgian province of Abkhazia. At a U.N. news conference Adamia told that Russian forces had actively participated in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict on the separatist side, that resulted in 300,000 Georgians seeking refuge out of the region and 10,000 more perished during military activities there. Reacting sharply to Putin's comments the day before, Adamia suggested the Russian leader was signaling Kremlin's shift to a more aggressive policy toward Georgia, Ukraine, and other states of the former Soviet Union. In Tbilisi the Secretary of the National Security Council of Gergia Konstantin Kemulariya announced on February 1 that presence of Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zones in Georgia, particularly in Chinvali region, “is causing threat to the country”. Authorities in Tbilisi have long accused Russia of supporting the rebel provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia that declared independence from Georgia in the early 1990s but are internationally recognized as part of Georgia. | |
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