MOSCOW. Dec 15 (Interfax) - Recently voiced proposals to reconsider the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement are unrealistic, EU special representative for the crisis in Georgia Pierre Morel said.
It is absolutely necessary to continue working in the present-day format, Morel, who is also a co-chairman of the Geneva consultations on security and stability in the South Caucasus, said in an interview with Russia's Kommersant newspaper published on Wednesday.
The agreement dated August 12, 2008 is not some artificial thing that could be rebuilt, the EU official said.
The idea of rewriting it to have agreements more convenient for the sides is pointless, he said.
It is unclear how it is possible to create a document that would suit all of the sides that have mutually exclusive demands, Morel said.
Those who suggest reconsidering the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement signed in August 2008 argue that the document was signed before Russia recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.
For his part, Bolat Nurgaliyev, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe special representative for protracted conflicts, told Interfax that although not all principles of the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement have been put into practice, a transformation of the document in the future could not be ruled out.
"It is wrong to say that all of the six points of the agreement have become irrelevant. We think that there is still a lot of work to be done on these points. However, we do not rule out that some transformation of the agreement will be required subsequently," Nurgaliyev said.