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Director of ICCN Dr. George Khutsishvili is one of the initial signatories to the Appeal for the establishment of the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and is supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. See at

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Proportions of Disproportion and the Responsibility to Protect

date: 2008-12-04

Russian leaders qualified their military operation in Georgia in August 2008 as “a reaction to the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia”. What they have never mention is that the same Russia – along with the entire international community - adhered to recognition of territorial integrity of Georgia - including Abkhazia and South Ossetia - in all post-Soviet years; basing on which logic, the Georgian attempt to regain Tskhinvali by force qualifies as a disproportionate use of violence by the state towards its own insurgent province, while “aggression” usually pertains to actions towards a different state. This is said in order to stay just, not to justify violence.

The David and Goliath Syndrome in Georgia-Russia Relations

date: 2008-12-04

“Georgia is David fighting Goliath Russia”, declared Mikheil Saakashvili addressing the rally of his supporters in Tbilisi, while Russian tanks still lagged their withdrawal from the occupied parts of his country. What he also meant by such a comparison was inevitability of victory over the monster. David vs. Goliath has been a clear-cut pattern of the domestic perception of Georgia-Russia relations in the entire post-Rose-Revolution period.

George Khutsishvili from Vienna, Austria (12-14 August 2008)

date: 2008-08-14

Since the start of the crisis, a new informational war has been spiralled across the huge media space controlled or influenced by Russia. Russian media sources reiterated the official version of events: Georgians have launched an unprovoked surprise attack on South-Ossetian city of Tskhinvali which has destroyed the city completely, killed around 2000 civilians, and made the rest flee from the area. It is yet to be investigated what happened on 8th of August.

"Jeder hofft, dass das Blutvergießen möglichst gering sein wird und dass es bald zu Verhandlungen kommt."

date: 2008-08-08

Zur Person: George Khutsishvili ist Direktor des International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN), einer Menschenrechts-NGO, die 1994 in Tiflis gegründet wurde. ICCN beobachtet Konflikte und Krisen in der Kaukasus-Region und erstellt regelmäßige Dossiers.

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