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So-called elections in South Ossetia do not correspond to any international norms: Speaker of Georgia's Parliament

Politics Materials 1 June 2009 18:16 (UTC +04:00)
So-called elections in South Ossetia do not correspond to any international norms: Speaker of Georgia's Parliament

Georgia, Tbilisi, June 1 / Trend , N.Kirtshalia /

Recognition of legitimacy of so-called parliamentary elections held by the puppet regime of Tskhinvali is not possible for the Speaker of the legislative body of Georgia David Bakradze. He said at today's meeting of the Bureau that these so-called elections did not correspond to any international standard".  

"It is impossible to consider fair the elections in the territory, where ethnic cleansing was carried out," he said.

At the same time, Bakradze touched upon the presence of international observers in these elections. "There may have been private observers, but the question arises on what basis they were there," said Speaker of the Parliament.

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