TSKHINVALI. Aug 1 (Interfax) - Attempts of the United States to convince the world that Russia is responsible for the events of August 2008 are hopeless, South Ossetian Presidential Representative Boris Chochiyev said in comment on the U.S. Senate resolution that urged Russia to end the 'occupation' of Georgia.
The United States grasps at straws in making such a comment, he said.
Chochiyev stated with regret that South Ossetia did not expect anything different from the U.S. Senate.
"Could they have made a different decision, although the whole world learned that Georgia attacked South Ossetia and Russia came to its rescue to impede the efforts of the U.S. and other states that armed the Saakashvili regime and blessed its aggression against South Ossetia?" he said.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia cannot be called occupied territories, Chochiyev said.
"If not for Russia, there would have been no such independent states [South Ossetia and Abkhazia] on the world map, and they would have vanished completely. That was a program, and we knew where it was drafted. They wanted to implement the program via the unstable man, Saakashvili. It is important that everyone knows who the aggressor is and who the occupant is. I have said many times and I will repeat that it is high time for the United States to stop its double-standard policy," he said.
Chochiyev presumed, however, that the policy would continue. "This bubble will blow up sooner or later. Being the head of the South Ossetian delegation to the Geneva debates, I ask the question to all the Senators: What would have happened if Russia had not interfered in August 2008? What is better: to exterminate a people or to implement one's dirty policy?" he asked.