18 January 2010, 22:20
Ambassador: Georgia has no claims to Ukraine for refusal to register observers
As announced by Grigol Katamadze, Georgia's ambassador to Ukraine, at a press conference in Kiev, the conflict in the context of the refusal of the Ukrainian Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to register election observers from Georgia will not grow into a diplomatic scandal.
According to the diplomat, the Georgian party has no claims to Ukraine.
As to the number of observers, Mr Katamadze has noted: "The presence of more or fewer has no effect on election outcomes."
At the same time, according to the ambassador, the CEC's arguments to reject registration of observers were "very weak", as the "Interfax" reports.
Mr Katamadze believes that the Georgian party observed, in its attempt to register its observers, all the requirements of the Ukrainian legislation, and the registration request was timely submitted.
The "Caucasian Knot" reported earlier that on January 17 the CEC of Ukraine again rejected registration to two thousand observers from Georgia at the country's presidential election, in spite of the fact that the Administrative Court, according to Yuri Lutsenko, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, "confirmed the must to register them."
