BYUT, Party of Regions have no particular attitude to Georgian tragedy

It seems that not all Ukrainian leading parties determined their attitude to Georgian events.
The leading in democratic coalition Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko remains silent about this as well as the Premier's top Batkivshchyna.

The party Our Ukraine included into the parliamentary coalition of democratic forces condemned the events in Georgia and noted that Russia which began military operations against sovereign Georgia on August 8, 2008, demonstrated that it did not cope with peacemaking role and used the conflict situation with unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia for implementation of own geopolitical plans concerning Georgia.

Our Ukraine supported Georgia's territorial integrity and expressed concern about the fact of "using the base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol for holding actions and tasks incompatible with Black Sea Fleet's status on the Ukrainian territory".

The oppositional Party of Regions decently let Nina Karpachova, party's member and ombudsman, speak.

The commissioner on human rights noted that a fratricidal war has no winners and that "death of civilians, destruction of the residential houses, streets, kindergartens, schools, hospitals caused pain in the hearts of Ukrainian citizens".

According to Karpachova, "the events in South Ossetia violate the main human right - the right for life and is the rudest violation of the basic regulations of the international law and first of all, Geneva Conventions on protection of war victims including the Fourth Convention on protection of civilians during the times of war.

Karpachova appealed to conflict parties to stop military operations immediately and to come back to the negotiation table.

The Lytvyn Bloc which does not refer itself neither to the coalition, nor to the opposition, keeps silent on the Georgian tragedy

But the Communist Party, which is not officially oppositional, used the situation to the full. Publications on the party's web-site accuse "Saakashvili regime" of organization of "butchery in South Ossetia. For the sake of narrow-political ambitions these destroyers brought their troops to the peaceful city of Tskhinvali," the communists say.

Their leader Petro Symonenko who never hid his pro-Russian sympathy also accused Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko of "agreeable attitude" and solidarity with "bloody aggressors", namely Georgia which brought its troops on its own territory.

Symonenko claims that "operation on stirring up the war in Caucasus was preliminary planned by the White House and the Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat developed and coordinated several scenarios on preparation and placing US and NATO military bases on the Ukrainian territory".

As UKRINFORM earlier reported, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko holds consultations regarding settlement of the armed conflict in South Ossetia (Georgia) with leaders of the countries and the EU.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Volodymyr Ohryzko, who is in Georgia on a working visit said that "Ukraine' position is unknown. We call for immediate suspension of arms. Reaching the settlement is possible only with the participation of the international community without preliminary conditions".

UKRINFORM