Georgia, Moldova and U.S. demand Russia "to stop aid" to unrecognized republics

PanARMENIAN.Net - Georgia, Moldova and the U.S. demand Russia to stop aid to "separatist regimes." In the OSCE Standing Council in Vienna the missions of these countries to the OSCE called on Russia to stop financial aid to "separatist regimes and join the projects serving the economic development of the regions under the control of international organizations." According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova, GUAM and the U.S. expressed their concern about Russia's activity in Transdniestria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. "Officially receiving the leaders of unrecognized republics in Moscow, holding negotiations with them as presidents contradict Russia's status as mediator that has to be bias in the conflicts," the statement says. Georgia, Moldova and the U.S. said that they do not understand Russia's position with regard to the referenda and elections organized by Tiraspol, Tskhinvali and Sukhumi regimes, controlling over the violation of human rights and freedoms. The GUAM and the U.S. stressed the importance of Russia's withdrawing it troops and weapons from Moldova and Georgia according to the commitments undertaken in Istanbul summit of OSCE in 1999, reports APA.