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Kokoity urges EU to evaluate provocative act of Georgian, Polish presidents

TSKHINVALI. Nov 24 (Interfax) - South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity has accused the presidents of Georgia and Poland of a provocative act aimed at regional destabilization.

"Today's event was a deliberate provocative act of the Georgian and Polish presidents targeted for regional destabilization," Kokoity told Interfax on Sunday.

"I assert there was no gunfire. The leaders of Georgia and Poland have once again decided to accuse Russia of all deadly sins. The European Union should think twice before befriending such countries as Georgia and Poland, which permanently try to incite Russia and to destabilize the region," he said.

"I have been told that our border was approached not by a motorcade but by one car. If that car was truly carrying the two presidents, they took a very serious step aimed at thwarting the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement. I think that the European community must react [to the situation]," Kokoity said. "There is also a question whether the Georgian and Polish presidents informed EU monitors of their trip and where EU monitors were located at that moment. These questions must be answered," he said.