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Abkhazia will not allow U.S., EU to deploy peacekeeping forces
RIA Novosti ^ | 30/ 09/ 2005

Posted on 10/05/2005 8:54:52 AM PDT by Lukasz

SUKHUMI, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - The president of Abkhazia, a self-proclaimed independent republic on Georgian territory, said he would not agree to the deployment of U.S. and EU peacekeeping forces in the region.

"The CIS peacekeeping troops were sent to the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone in line with the May 14, 1994 agreement on a ceasefire and the disengagement of forces," Sergei Bagapsh said, responding to a proposal by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to involve the United States and the European Union in the peacemaking process. "Abkhazia does not plan on making any amendments to the document."

"No other countries can be engaged in the peacekeeping process without our consent," Bagapsh said.

Saakashvili said Wednesday that the U.S. and EU should be part of the settlement efforts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the other self-proclaimed republic in Georgia. "Russia has played a crucial role in the process, but the U.S., which has expressed willingness, must also get involved," the Georgian president said.

Saakashvili said the EU could also play a central role in resolving the conflicts. "Russia is a major player, but Europe must also become more actively involved."

Moldova's Transdnestr region, another self-proclaimed post-Soviet republic, recently agreed to U.S. and EU mediation but only as observers, the republic's foreign ministry said Friday.

The decision regarding Transdnestr was reached during recent talks between the two conflicting sides and mediators (Russia, Ukraine, and the OSCE) held in Odessa, a Ukrainian Black Sea city. The OSCE adopted a document that said observers had no right to participate in decision-making, to sign protocols, to preside over meetings, or to call for meetings.

"We have long been opposed to U.S. involvement, as its role in the Balkans, for example, did not improve, but rather deteriorated, things," Valery Litskai, the foreign minister of Transdnestr, said.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: abkhazia; caucasus; cis; eu; georgia; moldova; osce; peacekeepers; russia; southossetia; unpeacekeeping
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To: jb6
Since you support Abkhazian separatists supported by Basayev, Lukasz asked you "Maybe you want also independent Chechnya and all other nations occupied by Russia?"

Your answer: "...as for the Chechens, sure if they take only the land they had in 1920, which is the southern half of what they now own..." - post 164

I don't support Chechen statehood in any case.

61 posted on 10/07/2005 5:32:48 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
I also seem to remember that you support those Russians who Stalin sent to the Baltics to eradicate their native culture.

Just a reminder. It was Russians (not under Stalin but before) who SAVED Baltics nations from assimilation/eradication by Germans and Swedes. If for example Latvia had remained under German rule, Latvians would be today where Baltic Pruses and Polabians are (together with Tasmanians in the land of everlasting hunting ).

Second a significant parts of Estonia and Latvia were ethnically Russian for centuries.

Third, Estonians were part of Russia from the beginning, before MOST of Russians. They were one of the four founding tribes of oldest Rus (together with one Finnish tribe and two northern Slavic tribes) united by the fifth tribe of Scandinavian Ruses.

62 posted on 10/07/2005 5:38:26 PM PDT by A. Pole (For today's Democrats abortion and "gay marriage" are more important that the whole New Deal legacy.)
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To: A. Pole
Maybe, but maybe not. The nazis did not consider Balts untermensch. Hitler even appointed the Baltic Alfred Rosenberg as Governor of the Occupied Eastern Territories in part to appease the Balts.

In any case the Russians did not save them from anything since they only imposed a communist tyranny on them responsible for more genocide than even the nazis.

63 posted on 10/07/2005 5:43:58 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: All; Tailgunner Joe; jb6; sergey1973; lizol; Lukasz; A. Pole; Polak z Polski; Gucho; TexKat; ...

O.K



“O.K of fore this is becoming uncontrollable I have on idea. Once and of all let “freepers” from this thread decide on their own vote. Here of eto is; only historical facts of Georgia country nothing less no more; eto no personal attacks no digressions from subject. You two face each other with historical facts. I call upon all people on this thread to be judges of fore I will stand by. If you agree then let do it. You cast your vote of I am for “Tailgunner Joe” or fore I am for” jb6”, remember only historical political facts no personal attacks. If you up for it.”


thank you


64 posted on 10/07/2005 5:44:10 PM PDT by anonymoussierra
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Real supporters of Israel know that Arab claims of mass expulsions of "Palestinians" by Israel is a jihadist myth.

I guess the "supporters" of one side are not the most objective group? As far as I know the expulsions did take place. I am not a jihadist.

65 posted on 10/07/2005 6:25:51 PM PDT by A. Pole (For today's Democrats abortion and "gay marriage" are more important that the whole New Deal legacy.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
In any case the Russians did not save them from anything since they only imposed a communist tyranny on them responsible for more genocide than even the nazis.

I said "before the 1917 Revolution". The communist tyranny was imposed both on Russians and on Baltia by the Communists from various ethnic groups. Balts, especially Latvians played the crucial role in Bolshevik victory. Don't you know it?

66 posted on 10/07/2005 6:29:56 PM PDT by A. Pole (For today's Democrats abortion and "gay marriage" are more important that the whole New Deal legacy.)
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To: sergey1973

As for Abkhazia, yes I agree that it's time to set a time line for Russian troops to leave the region and reintegrate Abkhazia into Georgia. ==

Problem is that abkhasians don't want to go to Georgia. They fought with them. Remember?
Georgians acnn't find even 10 abkhasians who may fight on thier side.

It's ridiculous to fight Islamic separatism in Chechnya and throughout North Caucasus while supporting another kind of separatism in the neighboring country. ==

Different situation. Russia found quite the number of chechens who fight vakhabit islamists there. It is not a fight about separatism anymore. It is fight about secular chechens vs islamist chechen. Like in Iraq.

However, internationally recognized borders must be respected no matter how they came to be.==

No matter that Abkhazia was given to Georgia by Stalin? You respect Stalin' installed borders?


67 posted on 10/08/2005 3:21:07 AM PDT by RusIvan
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To: Lukasz
Lets ask an Ukrainian. Mazepa do you noticed any “Polish territorial push” in Ukraine, Belarus or Moldova?
Yeah, right.:))
As long as on topic- the only other country which sometimes annoys Ukraine (other than Russia of course) is Romania about my region of Bukovyna which has a 20% minority there.
68 posted on 10/08/2005 10:18:32 AM PDT by Mazepa
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To: jb6

“peacekeeping forces”!?? “Peacekeeping” farce is more like it! It looks like Abkhazians started to learn from sad Yugoslavian experience

http://www.balkan-archive.org.yu/


69 posted on 10/08/2005 8:30:42 PM PDT by zagor-te-nej (http://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/mem.htm)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Aren't you the one who is always lecturing us Americans that we shouldn't impose our values on other countries (like Russia)?

Ehhh? Impose, no, as George Washington cautioned about bringing democracy at the end of a bayonet, however, that doesn't mean we should not lead by example or through soft prompting....this however has nothing to do with dealing with such groups as the Nazis, etc, before you try to make that analogy.

70 posted on 10/09/2005 4:10:32 PM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Since you support Abkhazian separatists supported by Basayev, Lukasz asked you "Maybe you want also independent Chechnya and all other nations occupied by Russia?"

Baseyov? The same who commanded Gudayov and who's 500+ Chechens, under Georgian pay, attacked Abhazia in 2000? Oh, but hay, they openned up by massacring 14 civilians in an Armenian village in Abhazia...but those Armenians aren't Christian either according to you, so no sweat there.

As for the Chechens, sure, they can have their little mountain state in the far south, which is their historic lands....of course any expensionist moves would be answered by war...oh just like 1999, when the Chechens, independent for 3 years, invaded Daghistan....As opposed to the Abhaz who after freeing their land and stopping the Georgian induced genocide have never invaded the Georgians but instead have themselves been attacked for 12 years.

But I don't expect the likes of you or your moral equivalest Lukasz (who also roots for the Balkan muslims) to see the difference....to many details, to complex and the victims are friends of the Russians so in your minds they deserved the rape.

71 posted on 10/09/2005 4:15:07 PM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
In any case the Russians did not save them from anything since they only imposed a communist tyranny on them responsible for more genocide than even the nazis.

Yes, like the Latvian Rifles who personally worked as Lenin's body guards and made sure the communists held Petrograd. They, these Balts, were considered one of the cornor stones of the Communist Revolution.

72 posted on 10/09/2005 4:18:05 PM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: Lukasz

You are way way off.

Georgians are the najority, so the so called Abkhazian Muslims should resettle - maybe somewhere in Saudi Arabia. Or how about in Poland...


73 posted on 10/09/2005 4:31:14 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: Lukasz

You are way way off.

Georgians are the majority, so the so called Abkhazian Muslims should resettle - maybe somewhere in Saudi Arabia. Or how about in Poland...


74 posted on 10/09/2005 4:31:36 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: A. Pole; Tailgunner Joe

I said "before the 1917 Revolution". The communist tyranny was imposed both on Russians and on Baltia by the Communists from various ethnic groups. Balts, especially Latvians played the crucial role in Bolshevik victory. Don't you know it?
______________________________________________________

No he doesn't and even if you tell him he is do narrowly educated that he won't agree.

Bravo for reminding these narrowly educated anti Russians about the differences between Russians and Communists. The soviet commies were made up of many ethnicities including Americans, Poles, Baltics, Jews, etc.


75 posted on 10/09/2005 4:38:56 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: MarMema

PING!


76 posted on 10/09/2005 5:10:49 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121
Georgians are the najority, so the so called Abkhazian Muslims should resettle - maybe somewhere in Saudi Arabia. Or how about in Poland...

?? Only part of Abkhazians are Muslims. But they will themselves decide where they want to live, this is totally not my business. I’m not Kremlin strategist to support ethnic cleansing after all…

77 posted on 10/10/2005 12:14:21 AM PDT by Lukasz
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To: jb6

So many lies in one post, you are a master of this part of the human nature I suppose. I wont discuss with you on similar very low level...


78 posted on 10/10/2005 12:18:08 AM PDT by Lukasz
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To: Lukasz
I wont discuss with you on similar very low level...

Well, what low level will you discuss it at. Just trying to descend to a level you can understand.

As for lies, the only one with lies and an agenda is you. The one topic agenda.

79 posted on 10/10/2005 7:32:05 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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To: eleni121
The Abkhazian Muslims did resettle, about 120 years ago when Abkhazia became a part of the Russian empire. They retreated into Turkey with their islamic overlords. The majority of the population of Abkhazia is Abkhazian Orthodox, just like that of S.Ossessia is Ossessian Orthodox, even though certain agendad peoples would and have tried to portray them also as muslims.

The point is this, these entities, like Lukasz are supporting the Stalinist policies of the 1920s, when Stalin forcefully annexed Abkhazia to Georgia and began a forced colonization of the area that turned the majority Abkhaz into a minority in their own homeland. The Georgians then tried to wipe them out when the Abkhaz started aggitating for autonomy in 1992, but instead the Georgians lost and Abkhazia instead got independence.

The only reason these entities are supporting Stalin and genocide is because they hate Russians even more and Russians backed up the Abkhaz.

80 posted on 10/10/2005 7:38:00 AM PDT by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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