"In Abkhazia and South Ossetia, when Saakashvili (former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. -

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) attacked Tskhinvali, in the positions of peacekeepers, including Russian ones, there were no agreements that would be similar to the Minsk complex of measures," said the minister.

He recalled that the document "Medvedev-Sarkozy" was not even signed, but simply discussed (the presidents of Russia and France Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy. -

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This document assumed a number of steps, but was not signed by Georgia, Lavrov stressed.

"Sarkozy, after reaching an agreement with us here in Moscow, flew to Tbilisi in order to secure support for this document from Saakashvili," he recalled, adding that Saakashvili signed this document "only by deleting key provisions from it." ...

According to the Foreign Minister, Sarkozy tried to present this as a compromise, but "it was quite clear to everyone."

“There all the paper began with a phrase, with a preamble - the Russian Federation and the French Republic, seeking to normalize the situation in the Transcaucasus, offer the following to Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia: a ceasefire ... Saakashvili crossed out this cap and it turned out simply, the first point is a ceasefire and further.

And since then, the West has been demanding that we fulfill these agreements, ”Lavrov said.

In the case of Donbass, the situation was different, he noted.

“The 17-hour talks in Minsk with the participation of the leaders of the“ Normandy format ”- President Hollande, Chancellor Merkel, President Poroshenko, President Putin - they produced a result that was approved two days later in the UN Security Council without any appendages, without any or doubts that it needs to be fulfilled, ”the agency quotes the words of the head of the Russian foreign policy department.

Events in the Caucasus in 2008 unfolded after Georgian troops invaded the republic on the night of August 8 and fired at the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, from Grad installations.

The then Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, announced the start of a military peace enforcement operation, during which Georgian troops were forced to retreat.

On August 26, Russia recognized the independence of the two republics.