Frequent cases of illegal crossing of the Russian, Abkhazian and South Ossetian border from Georgia demonstrate the need for an early start of negotiations with Tbilisi, Sukhumi and Tskhinvali, told the Minister.
in the diplomatic Ministry recalled that in June, the outfit of the Russian border guards detained three illegal caught in the area of Abkhazia the Georgian population. Over the last eighteen months of such "illegals" are also found in Russia and South Ossetia. For example, on 13 June in Dagestan tied 24-year-old Georgian without documents. The man was armed with a hunting rifle "Vepr" with 28 rounds.
"Despite the rather serious, sometimes provocative nature of such violations and attitude of the Russian side to resolve such issues to the maximum politizirovannost and flexibly, in Tbilisi, unfortunately, once again trying to make this a political play, shifting responsibility to the other ", - reported in the report of the foreign Ministry.
the staff of the foreign Ministry urged the Georgian authorities to resolve problems through mutually beneficial and constructive dialogue.
"Expected from the Georgian authorities more vigorous outreach to its own population in order to prevent new cases of illegal crossing of the border," the Ministry noted.
Separately, the foreign Ministry stressed a provocative explanation of the state Department and the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi. According to diplomats, the us " authorities to shield their Georgian wards, and lay the blame on Moscow and Tskhinvali ". All this at least undermines the position of the US capital as an impartial participant of the Geneva discussions, I believe on Smolensk square.
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