TSKHINVALI. Nov 21 (Interfax) - The South Ossetian Foreign Ministry has described the European Parliament's Thursday resolution on Georgia as an attempt to use any biased methods to turn the situation backwards and return Georgia positions that it has lost by unwisely following Georgian propaganda.
In April 2010, the European Parliament supported the report by the European Union's independent commission led by Heidi Tagliavini, which investigated circumstances of the conflict in South Ossetia, whose main conclusion was that Georgia started the war against South Ossetia in August 2008, the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The European Parliament's Thursday resolution says that the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are occupied.
"The European Parliament should not be either a prosecutor or a judge in the issue of South Ossetia, not knowing and not being interested in knowing South Ossetia's opinion but only based on allegations, rumors and interests of Georgia," the document says.
"It would have been more reasonable to invite South Ossetian representatives to European Parliament meetings so that they could share information related to our state," it said.
As for the presence of Russian troops in South Ossetia, it is stipulated by Russian-South Ossetian bilateral agreements, and this cannot be viewed as occupation, the Foreign Ministry said.
Russia has fully honored its obligations under the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, there is not a single military serviceman on Georgian territory, and so any accusations on this account are groundless, it said.
The European Parliament, as well as other authoritative international institutions, should be impartial and balanced in issuing judgments about developments in the region and take into account opinions of all parties concerned rather than try to instill an abstract revanchist idea into the minds of Georgian leaders.
The European Parliament's resolution on Georgia passed on Thursday, in particular, calls on Russia to pull its troops out of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and urges the European Union to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia as occupied Georgian territories.