Recently Commonwealth for Democracy and Rights of Peoples, which includes 3 unrecognized republics of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria, has applied to the United Nations with request to approve the remaining of Russian peacekeeping forces in such instable region as Abkhazia. It has been motivated by the fact that the limitation upon their authority in Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone is expired in April.
Thus, on April, 14 the UN Security Council will decide whether the mandate of the CIS collective peacekeeping forces should be extended or its format should be changed with replacing the Russian troops with the military from more loyal to Tbilisi countries, as Georgia demands it. But I think everyone understands who will supply the place of Russian peacekeepers there. Well, of course, Georgia plans to see there its overseas friends or, in the last resort, their Ukrainian partners. But I can imagine what will happen there after withdrawal of Russian troops.
We will be witnesses the same things that we’ve seen in Kosovo and Serbia after withdrawal of Russian contingent of peacekeepers, where despite the presence of NATO troops, UN police forces and OSCE mission we have had roaring drug trade, smuggling of arms and munitions, constant kidnapping and assaults on civilians from Serbian villages and burning their houses. The same situation is now in Iraq and Afghanistan, in other words, in all areas, which are controlled by US-led NATO “peacekeepers”…So why should UNO continue this list of instable places in the world?