Future of Russian-Georgian dossier to be decided in Strasbourg.

STRASBOURG, October 5 (Itar-Tass) - The key Committee of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for monitoring will
once again discuss the expediency of further consideration of the
Russian-Georgian dossier on Tuesday.
The Monitoring Committee has already discussed the possibility of
closing the dossier but at that time the sides split in half (16 by 16) on
that issue and couldn't arrive at any single solution. Therefore, the
subject is likely to be raised again on Tuesday.
Formally, a second reporter may be elected.
The deputy head of the Russian delegation at PACE, the first deputy
chairman of the Duma Committee for International Affairs Leonid Slutsky
told Itar-Tass that after the European Union Mission prepared a report on
the consequences of events in South Ossetia and its chairwoman Heidi
Tagliavini delivered a speech at Strasbourg, it became senseless to
prepare additional reports within the dossier. He recalled that initially
the PACE wanted to investigate into the causes of a conflict in Southern
Caucasus that broke out in August 2008 and to determine those who were to
blame for unleashing the military hostilities.
"Tagliavini unambiguously said that Georgia was an aggressor while the
Georgian delegation simply played games with the PACE imposing its
conclusions on it. Many resolutions on this issue were passed under an
emotional impact," Slutsky went on to say.
He assured the PACE that Moscow was not at all deaf to PACE's
constructive criticism. "The Russian delegation is also ready to any
cooperation with the Georgian delegation in Strasbourg, especially in the
humanitarian sphere," the deputy head of the Russian delegation said.
The conflict in Southern Caucasus has constantly been on the PACE
agenda since 2008. PACE has passed more than one resolution where it
invariably claimed that Moscow should recall its recognition of Abkhazia
and South Ossetia. The Russian delegation said that the PACE decisions
couldn't be implemented and that served as a pretext for Georgia to demand
that Moscow be deprived of its powers in Strasbourg. However, the PACE
turned down Georgia's demand.
Heidi Tagliavini, the head of the EU independent commission for the
investigation of the conflict in South Ossetia, delivered a speech at the
spring session in Strasbourg. She put the blame for the war in Southern
Caucasus on Georgia and called on the conflicting sides to overcome its
consequences at the negotiating table.

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