MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia insisted at a special session of the UN Security Council called to discuss the Georgian problem that Abkhazia should be allowed to make its case to the Security Council regarding the situation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"Russia has once again raised the issue of allowing Abkhazia, alongside Georgia, to present to the UN SC its vision of the situation in the conflict zone," the ministry said in a statement released on Thursday.
Commenting on the results of the session, which was held on April 23, the Russian foreign ministry noted that Georgia "tried to draw the attention of UN SC members to the alleged downing by a Russian airplane of its unarmed drone over Abkhazia."
"However, the strategy did no work. The overwhelming majority of SC members were quite reserved in their reaction to the speech made by Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze," the statement says.
No documents were adopted by the SC at the end of the session, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"The Russian representative at the UN SC gave a thorough assessment of the provocative flights by Georgian unmanned aircraft over Abkhazia, which violate both the Moscow Treaty of May 14, 1994, and UN SC Resolution N1808, which prohibits any unauthorized military activity in the conflict zone," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Besides, Russian permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin outlined Russian President Vladimir Putin's new policy aimed at helping in the socio-economic rehabilitation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and providing support to the population of both regions, including to the Russian citizens who live there, the Russian foreign ministry said.