Moldova's Gagauz grieve only Ossetian deaths, not Georgian

The legislature of the Gagauz Autonomy has issued a statement on Thursday expressing its condolences to the relatives of the Ossetians killed in the Russo-Georgian conflict and “to the Russian Federation, whose peace-keeping soldiers laid their heads to defend the rights and freedoms of the Ossetian people”. The Gagauz MPs do not express any regret for the Georgians who died in the recent hostilities, Info-Prim Neo reports. “We greet the plan to settle the conflict signed by the president of the Russian Federation,” the legislators from the autonomy say. The cease-fire agreement was brokered by French president Nicolas Sarkozy and was first signed by the Georgian president. “Gagauzia's People's Assembly is concerned with the tragedy of the Ossetian people and expresses its sympathy with its resilience to the military aggression. We sincerely believe the Russian Federation and the international organizations will take all the measures to peacefully settle the conflict,” reads the statement of the parliament in Moldova's South. On August 13, a political movement from Comrat “Yedinnaya Gagauzia”, believed to be close to governor Mihail Formuzal, in a press statement, condemned “the military aggression by Georgia's leadership against the people in South Ossetia.”