Statement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Murat Dzhioev on the EU's use of satellites to monitor activities in the Republic of South Ossetia

The European Union has announced that it will begin using satellites to watch what we are doing in South Ossetia. The satellites will record that we are reconstructing our country after the EU's human monitors failed to stop Georgia's brutal attack on our country in 2008. The satellites will record that we are rebuilding hospitals, schools, churches, roads, and housing destroyed by Georgian artillery and rockets. The satellites will record that we are taking the necessary steps to sustain our independence and security. The same satellites should also record any Georgian remilitarization. If the EU is serious about promoting peace in the Caucasus, it will address the real threats to security and report to the world all that its satellites see.

--Murat Djioev, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Republic of South Ossetia