Issued on: 31/05/2022 - 01:18

Tbilisi (AFP) – The leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia on Monday scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia which his predecessor had scheduled for July 17.


South Ossetia was at the centre of the Russian-Georgian war in 2008 after which the Kremlin recognised the territory as an independent state and stationed military bases there.

In a decree issued Monday, the Moscow-controlled enclave's president Alan Gagloev invoked "uncertainty of the legal consequences of the issue submitted to a referendum".

The decree also stressed "the inadmissibility of a unilateral decision of a referendum on issues affecting the legitimate rights and interests of the Russian Federation".

Gagloev ordered "to hold, without delay, consultations with the Russian side on the entire range of issues related to the further integration of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation".

On May 13, Gagloev's predecessor, Anatoly Bibilov, signed a decree on holding the referendum, citing the region's "historic aspiration" to join Russia, his office said at the time.

Bibilov lost his bid for re-election earlier this month. Russia has expressed hope that Gagloev will preserve "continuity" in ties with Moscow.

Tbilisi has previously denounced as "unacceptable" plans by South Ossetia to hold a referendum on joining Russia.

War crimes
Monday's announcement came on the 96th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists in Donetsk and Lugansk regions have also expressed interest in joining Russia.

The full-scale war on Ukraine has sparked an outpouring of solidarity in Georgia.

In August 2008, Russian forces launched an all-out invasion of Georgia, which was battling pro-Russian militia in South Ossetia, after they shelled Georgian villages.

The fighting ended five days later with a European Union-mediated ceasefire but claimed more than 700 lives and displaced tens of thousands of ethnic Georgians.

The war's aftermath saw the Kremlin recognise the independence of South Ossetia and another separatist region, Abkhazia, which have since remained under Russia's military control.

The conflict marked the culmination of tensions with the Kremlin over staunchly pro-Western Tbilisi's bid to join the European Union and NATO.

In March, the prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, applied for arrest warrants for three current and former South Ossetian officials in connection with war crimes committed against ethnic Georgians.

The alleged crimes included torture, inhuman treatment, illegal detention, violation of personal dignity, hostage-taking and illegal transfers of people.

Last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for human rights violations in the war's aftermath.

https://www.rfi.fr/en/georgia-s-breakaway-region-ditches-referendum-on-joining-russia

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

Russia did in Georgia same thing they are attempting to do in Ukraine.

It took the EU stepping in to stop the Russian madness in Georgia.

Putin was now hoping that Gagloev the new leader of South Ossetia would join Russia but dude just hit Putin with an uppercut

Igbofam:
Russia did in Georgia same thing they are attempting to do in Ukraine.

It took the EU stepping in to stop the Russian madness in Georgia.

Putin was now hoping that Gagloev the new leader of South Ossetia would join Russia but dude just hit Putin with an uppercut

That fellow putin is as blood thirsty as his father Hitler

Wise way to go...

Igbofam:
Russia did in Georgia same thing they are attempting to do in Ukraine.

It took the EU stepping in to stop the Russian madness in Georgia.

Putin was now hoping that Gagloev the new leader of South Ossetia would join Russia but dude just hit Putin with an uppercut

You just bring up rubbish.

The leader of South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia, has scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia.

The president of a breakaway region of Georgia, South Ossetia, has scrapped plans for a June 17 referendum on joining Russia.
The new leader of the region, which is recognized as separate by only Russia and a handful of its allies, has said he first wants to hold talks with Moscow on the plan about the referendum.

The separate region referendum came up when Eastern Ukraine former cities planned to join Russia as a nation.

Yeah! I saw the news today on France24...

seunny4lif:

You just bring up rubbish.

The leader of South Ossetia, the breakaway region of Georgia, has scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia.

The president of a breakaway region of Georgia, South Ossetia, has scrapped plans for a June 17 referendum on joining Russia.
The new leader of the region, which is recognized as separate by only Russia and a handful of its allies, has said he first wants to hold talks with Moscow on the plan about the referendum.

The separate region referendum came up when Eastern Ukraine former cities planned to join Russia as a nation.

You always come up with all sorts of rubbish just to make Russia look good.

They no longer want to hold a referendum to join any longer PERIOD.

DEM SAY DEM NO DO AGAIN NA

Why e dey pain you

Igbofam:


You always come up with all sorts of rubbish just to make Russia look good.

They no longer want to hold a referendum to join any longer PERIOD.

DEM SAY DEM NO DO AGAIN NA

Why e dey pain you

Do you even read and understand the news at all or just keep jumping around on news without understanding it as long as it has Russia name on it?
For the fact that the mod will push anything to the FP shows Nairaland just push anything.

For your information, he is a new president who have to travel to Moscow first before anything can be done in Ossetia region.

Do you sleep at all

How’s this even newsworthy when it was Russia who told them to ditch the idea for now since Georgia has stayed out of the Ukraine conflict and hasn’t violated any agreements?

This Igbosam monkey isn’t just an illiterate propagandist - he might be the dumbest guy on this forum, lol.

seunny4lif:

Do you even read and understand the news at all or just keep jumping around on news without understanding it as long as it has Russia name on it?
For the fact that the mod will push anything to the FP shows Nairaland just push anything.

For your information, he is a new president who have to travel to Moscow first before anything can be done in Ossetia region.

Do you sleep at all

Do you read to understand at all? You just jump to type rubbish in defence of Russia once you see her name on any thread.

Why are you always attracted to my threads you Putin bots?

Do you think at all?

AldrichAmes:
How’s this even newsworthy when it was Russia who told them to ditch the idea for now since Georgia has stayed out of the Ukraine conflict and hasn’t violated any agreements?

This Igbosam monkey isn’t just an illiterate propagandist - he might be the dumbest guy on this forum, lol.

Another angle of defence

Russia told them to ditch the idea for now

Oya I am waiting for more Russian sided excuses

Igbofam:


Do you read to understand at all? You just jump to type rubbish in defence of Russia once you see her name on any thread.

Why are you always attracted to my threads you Putin bots?

Do you think at all?

Reason, I said you don’t know know anything than to jump and create thread on Nairaland as long as it look anti Russia even when you don’t understand the news then the Mod will help you to push up to FP.

Ossetia get money from Russia and Russia tell them what to do as they are Russian minorities.
Ossetia uses Ruble and get regional budget from Moscow like Nigeria government gives to states in Nigeria meaning it’s Russia but not yet officially
Your news is like Kosovo, telling NATO and USA want to do.

For more fake news, follow Igbofam on Nairaland

Common Ukraine visa, he no get oo
Dis guy and lamba na 5 & 6

seunny4lif:

Reason, I said you don’t know know anything than to jump and create thread on Nairaland as long as it look anti Russia even when you don’t understand the news then the Mod will help you to push up to FP.

Ossetia get money from Russia and Russia tell them what to do as they are Russians minorities.

Your news is like Kosovo, telling NATO and USA want to do.

Russia's foreign policy is in tatters: Formerly loyal Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have refused to back Putin's war in Ukraine and have backed Ukraine's sovereignty.

Now Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia has dramatically axed Putin's plan to be absorbed into Russia.

Guy relax. Russia is bad market. Stop making noise and defending her senselessly

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Igbofam:


Russia's foreign policy is in tatters: Formerly loyal Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have refused to back Putin's war in Ukraine and have backed Ukraine's sovereignty.

Now Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia has dramatically axed Putin's plan to be absorbed into Russia.

Guy relax. Russia is bad market. Stop making noise and defending her senselessly

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DoggoneDogg:
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When their Russia is shown to be losing they look for anything to make themselves feel better.

This werey does not even realize that the Ruble is being artificially buffered while remaining useless and unable to be spent.

Black market rate for Dollar to Ruble as at yesterday in Russia stood at 202 rubles to a dollar but yeah rejoice over artificial rates

Russians know better

Your comment alone show you are living in one village in Nigeria.
Fuel is about to €3 per litre in Berlin and all time high in UK.
Poland and Estonia have told the citizens to be already for high cost of gas and oil yet only Hungary oil and gas is cheap.

Russia stopped gas flow to Holland today as already sent filling stations price up and yet Russia is a bad market according to you.
Did Germany and Italy backed USA and UK war on Iraq? Over 1M British protested against Iraq war and 3M in Rome alone

You have never set your foot in any EU countries, if you do then you will know that just additional €100 from your pocket is a big problem.

Igbofam:


Russia's foreign policy is in tatters: Formerly loyal Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have refused to back Putin's war in Ukraine and have backed Ukraine's sovereignty.

Now Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia has dramatically axed Putin's plan to be absorbed into Russia.

Guy relax. Russia is bad market. Stop making noise and defending her senselessly

seunny4lif:
Your comment alone show you are living in one village in Nigeria.
Fuel is about to €3 per litre in Berlin and all time high in UK.
Poland and Estonia have told the citizens to be already for high cost of gas and oil yet only Hungary oil and gas is cheap.

Russia stopped gas flow to Holland today as already sent filling stations price up and yet Russia is a bad market according to you.

You have never set your foot in any EU countries, if you do then you will know that just additional €100 from your pocket is a big problem.

Goalpost shifting when trapped with your nonsense.

How did my comment connect with netherlands or gazprom etc?

Are you high again?

seunny4lif:

Reason, I said you don’t know know anything than to jump and create thread on Nairaland as long as it look anti Russia even when you don’t understand the news then the Mod will help you to push up to FP.

Ossetia get money from Russia and Russia tell them what to do as they are Russian minorities.
Ossetia uses Ruble and get regional budget from Moscow like Nigeria government gives to states in Nigeria meaning it’s Russia but not yet officially
Your news is like Kosovo, telling NATO and USA want to do.

Russia told them to ditch it because there’s absolutely no point opening another front in Georgia when they’re already engaging Ukraine.

Funnily enough, Ukraine has also been begging Georgia to open another front and thus far, Georgia has refused due to what happened in 2008. So, why provoke them thus helping Ukraine when there’s no reason to?

Igbofam:


Goalpost shifting when trapped with your nonsense.

How did my comment connect with netherlands or gazprom etc?

Are you high again?

You said Russia is bad business then I give how bad business have sent EU inflation to all time high and how just Russia oil and gas supply stopped have sent filling stations in Holland to high price.

You said Russia loyal friends don’t support Russia war yet can’t research because I know you are still a baby in 2003 to remember the event on the 15 February 2003 was the largest and involved an unprecedented amount of international coordination.
Some of the largest protests took place in Europe.
In Rome in Italy, around three million people were involved in a protest that entered the Guinness Book of Records.
Thousands took part in a demonstration in the Turkish capital of Istanbul, despite local authorities having banned the protest. The events of 15 February were recorded as the largest protest of its type in human history.
Over 1M British took to the street of London, that shocked the British government.

The Biggest anti Iraq war was by USA biggest allies countries

AldrichAmes:


Russia told them to ditch it because there’s absolutely no point opening another front in Georgia when they’re already engaging Ukraine.

Funnily enough, Ukraine has also been begging Georgia to open another front and thus far, Georgia has refused due to what happened in 2008. So, why provoke them thus helping Ukraine when there’s no reason to?

Georgia President told him then that Georgia wouldn’t do that as 2008 showed that Georgia was left alone against Russia and if not for Merkel and Sarkozy that met with Medvedev.

Putin is more calm than Medvedev, if it’s Medvedev, he would have declare war like in 2008 not special operation Putin is doing.

From farm wey them dey plant Igbo

Fake NEWS

FAKE NEWS

FAKE NEWS

FAKE NEWS

They gave Putin the middle finger just like this Russian soldier gave a Ukraine drone a middle finger. However, the Russian soldiers and their tank got bombed to smitherins by the drone.

https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1530936343244771328?t=2IWdPvEIu2cwUSgz0k3qQg&s=19

Igbofam:
Issued on: 31/05/2022 - 01:18

Tbilisi (AFP) – The leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia on Monday scrapped plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia which his predecessor had scheduled for July 17.


South Ossetia was at the centre of the Russian-Georgian war in 2008 after which the Kremlin recognised the territory as an independent state and stationed military bases there.

In a decree issued Monday, the Moscow-controlled enclave's president Alan Gagloev invoked "uncertainty of the legal consequences of the issue submitted to a referendum".

The decree also stressed "the inadmissibility of a unilateral decision of a referendum on issues affecting the legitimate rights and interests of the Russian Federation".

Gagloev ordered "to hold, without delay, consultations with the Russian side on the entire range of issues related to the further integration of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation".

On May 13, Gagloev's predecessor, Anatoly Bibilov, signed a decree on holding the referendum, citing the region's "historic aspiration" to join Russia, his office said at the time.

Bibilov lost his bid for re-election earlier this month. Russia has expressed hope that Gagloev will preserve "continuity" in ties with Moscow.

Tbilisi has previously denounced as "unacceptable" plans by South Ossetia to hold a referendum on joining Russia.

War crimes
Monday's announcement came on the 96th day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where Moscow-backed separatists in Donetsk and Lugansk regions have also expressed interest in joining Russia.

The full-scale war on Ukraine has sparked an outpouring of solidarity in Georgia.

In August 2008, Russian forces launched an all-out invasion of Georgia, which was battling pro-Russian militia in South Ossetia, after they shelled Georgian villages.

The fighting ended five days later with a European Union-mediated ceasefire but claimed more than 700 lives and displaced tens of thousands of ethnic Georgians.

The war's aftermath saw the Kremlin recognise the independence of South Ossetia and another separatist region, Abkhazia, which have since remained under Russia's military control.

The conflict marked the culmination of tensions with the Kremlin over staunchly pro-Western Tbilisi's bid to join the European Union and NATO.

In March, the prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, applied for arrest warrants for three current and former South Ossetian officials in connection with war crimes committed against ethnic Georgians.

The alleged crimes included torture, inhuman treatment, illegal detention, violation of personal dignity, hostage-taking and illegal transfers of people.

Last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for human rights violations in the war's aftermath.

https://www.rfi.fr/en/georgia-s-breakaway-region-ditches-referendum-on-joining-russia

Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

No reasonable country would want to be part of Russia.

seunny4lif:

You said Russia is bad business then I give how bad business have sent EU inflation to all time high and how just Russia oil and gas supply stopped have sent filling stations in Holland to high price.

You said Russia loyal friends don’t support Russia war yet can’t research because I know you are still a baby in 2003 to remember the event on the 15 February 2003 was the largest and involved an unprecedented amount of international coordination.
Some of the largest protests took place in Europe.
In Rome in Italy, around three million people were involved in a protest that entered the Guinness Book of Records.
Thousands took part in a demonstration in the Turkish capital of Istanbul, despite local authorities having banned the protest. The events of 15 February were recorded as the largest protest of its type in human history.
Over 1M British took to the street of London, that shocked the British government.

The Biggest anti Iraq war was by USA biggest allies countries

See as u dey waste ur precious time on Igbofam, better ignore him

tamdun:

See as u dey waste ur precious time on Igbofam, better ignore him

I don’t just understand him.
He saw a news and rush it to Nairaland where the mod will push without even reading the story behind it.

I hope ASUU calls off strike cos it seems someone isn't productive enough. South Ossetia postponed this due to the newly elected president. He is still coming to Moscow to discuss this.

Is IQ at an all time low in Nigeria now? Because, this is getting extremely Sisyphean.

Another ridiculous post

You don't read your own news. In the news, you reported that:

Igbofam:
[b]Gagloev ordered "to hold, without delay, consultations with the Russian side on the entire range of issues related to the further integration of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation".

This tells you that South Ossetia isn't joining Russia to become a puppet state. They want to retain certain rights and need to negotiate/consult with Russia in regards to what rights they would keep and which ones they would give up.

If anything, this news supports Russia's claims that South Ossetia doesn't want to be a part of Georgia anymore and discredits Western reports of Russia grabbing South Ossetia from Georgia and trying to force it into Russia. There's no force here, it's all negotiations.

This is what Germany's DW says about the same news:

Despite criticizing the referendum, Gagloev has voiced his support for South Ossetia's eventual accession to Russia. Gagloev has said he plans to consult with Moscow on bringing about the region's integration with Russia. He has announced plans to travel to Moscow for talks.
https://www.dw.com/en/south-ossetia-shelves-plan-for-referendum-to-join-russia/a-61982164

Please report actual news and not what supports your position.

godliman:

That fellow putin is as blood thirsty as his father Hitler

Very correct....

Like father ..... Like son