Clinton calls “the Georgian, South Ossetian and the Abkhaz parties to stop any provocations against each other

The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls “the Georgian, South Ossetian and the Abkhaz parties to stop any provocations against each other". She said it at the meeting with students and lecturers of the M. V. Lomonosov’s Moscow State University.

"The diplomatic settlement of the conflict in order to avoid military operations should be the primary purpose. The permanent presence of monitors and peacekeeping forces is important to avoid any reason for further bloodshed", Clinton stressed.

The US Secretary of State reminded that the day before at the meeting with Sergey Lavrov "we discussed the issue of creating a buffer zone of the UN and the OSCE monitors at the border of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia".

"It is very important to have peacekeepers and observers there on a permanent basis”, she said. ”We have different views on the issue, and therefore it must be discussed, including within the frameworks of the Russia-NATO Council.

"It’s necessary to try to find the way out of the conflict situation in any possible way, not to stop Russia-NATO dialog, and at the same time try to solve other international problems, like Nagorno-Karabakh conflict".

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