UN Watches Developments in South Ossetia

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on July 21 that the UN is closely watching the developments in Georgia?s breakaway South Ossetia. The Secretary General added, however, that the UN has no plans to deploy a mission to that part of Georgia.

?I would hope that discussions between the Russian Federation and the Georgian Government will help calm the situation. When I was in Moscow myself in April? we [Kofi Annan and Russian President Putin] had a frank discussion about developments in Georgia. I also had a sense that the two men [Vladimir Putin and his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili] were developing a good and useful relationship. I hope that relationship will help them work out their differences and not lead to an explosion,? the UN Secretary General said at a news briefing in New York.

The UN is actively involved in the undergoing peace process in Georgia?s other breakaway region of Abkhazia, where the organization maintains a team of military observers.

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