UN General Assembly
2007

sweat and treasure to build such a society - one free from want and fear. We now must ensure that Georgia whole and free includes all the people of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. I believe I have been clear in stating Georgia's intentions and equally clear as to where we are unshakeable in our principles - principles, I stress, that are shared by all nations that seek legality and stability in the international system. We are committed to a peaceful and honest path. Unfortunately, our interlocutors do not seem to be. This morning, a senior Russian official made the very unconstructive, unsubstantiated and untrue accusation that Georgian forces killed two innocent people in Upper Abkhazia. What the senior Russian official failed to say, however, is that one of the people was a lieutenant colonel of the Russian military and that he was killed during a law enforcement operation against armed separatist insurgents. One has to wonder, what was a lieutenant colonel in the Russian army doing on in the Georgian forests, organizing and leading a group