Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec. 18 / Trend E.Ostapenko /
Chair of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) Dick Marty will travel to Moscow and Tbilisi on Dec.20-21 to prepare an upcoming hearing on the current situation with regard to the "consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia", the PACE reported.
On Monday, he will meet Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin and the Russian delegation to PACE in Moscow. The following day meetings will be held in Tbilisi with the Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister for Reintegration Eka Tkeshelashvili, and with the Georgian delegation to PACE.
Military actions were launched in the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia in August 2008. Georgian troops entered Tskhinvali, with Russian troops later occupying the city. The Russian armed forces drove the Georgian military back into Georgia proper.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia unilaterally declared independence from Georgia after the 2008 August war. The separatist regions were supported by Russia. Later, Moscow established diplomatic relations with the de facto states despite protests from the West. Venezuela, Nicaragua and Nauru recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The situation in the conflict zone has been repeatedly discussed at the PACE sessions. The Georgia -Russia relations were last discussed at the session in April this year. At present, the subject was removed from the PACE agenda, but is still being discussed at the meetings of the PACE Monitoring Committee.
The question is that what to do with the dossier on the conflict in Georgia- whether to review it at each regular session of the Assembly, or to study the situation in the form of individual country reports. It was proposed to resolve this issue at a special conference of the PACE.