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Wednesday, 01 November 2006
SOUTH OSSETIAN ELECTIONS NOT TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION: AMBASSADOR TORBEN HOLTZE
By empty (11/1/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
South Ossetian presidential elections to be held on November 12 will not be recognized by the European Union; head of the European Commission Delegation to Georgia and Armenia Torben Holtze stated on October 31 at a press conference on finishing his representative work in Georgia and Armenia (Per Eklund (Sweden), who arrives in Tbilisi on November 2, will head the European Commission Delegation to the countries). “South Ossetia has not been recognized by us as a state,” Holtze stressed. “Also, ‘parallel’ elections to be held on the same day in Tskhinvali region will not be recognized as legitimate.
South Ossetian presidential elections to be held on November 12 will not be recognized by the European Union; head of the European Commission Delegation to Georgia and Armenia Torben Holtze stated on October 31 at a press conference on finishing his representative work in Georgia and Armenia (Per Eklund (Sweden), who arrives in Tbilisi on November 2, will head the European Commission Delegation to the countries). “South Ossetia has not been recognized by us as a state,” Holtze stressed. “Also, ‘parallel’ elections to be held on the same day in Tskhinvali region will not be recognized as legitimate.” (Regnum)