OREANDA-NEWS. September 23, 2009. The European Union’s Commission for Investigation of Reasons of August War 2008 in Georgia has finished its work.

The foreign mass media report that according to Commission’s conclusions, Georgia bears the main share of responsibility for unleashing of hostilities in South Osetia. The Commission considers that President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia prepared forcible seizure of South Osetia and deliberate attack to Russian peacemakers. The Georgian group of 12,000 military men and 75 tanks concentrated near the borders of thre Republic of South Osetia on 7 August of 2008. According to Commission’s data, there were not Russian troops in South Osetia then. The Georgian party is also accused of deliberate attack to military posts of Russian peacemakers. Peacemakers’ fightback was recognized by the EU Commission as answering to rules of legal self-defence.

The Commission lays part of fault for conflict unleashing on Russia as well. In nits view, Moscow has provoked Saakashvili for the last few years by giving support to Tskhinval. Besides, Russian peacemakers failed to prevent Osetian militia men who subjected the Georgian population of the Republic to ethnic cleansing.

The Commission began work in December 2008 and intends to publish officially results of its investigation at the end of September. Its staff can hardly be accused of incompetence or too pro-Russian moods.