Moscow/Agency Caucasus – The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a remedial statement shortly after South Ossetia’s President Eduard Kokoity said in the wake of the war that Georgians were evacuated from the Georgian villages in South Ossetia and they would not be allowed to return again in the future. Kokoity’s words provoked remarks from the Georgian as well as Western news media that his statement was “the admission of ethnic cleansing” while Russian Foreign Ministry said in its statement that Kokoity made an emotional assertion because of the war’s destructive effects that would not immediately vanish.
“The Georgian refugees have the full right to return to
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