UN High Commissioner visits Georgian-Russian conflict zone
By Jamila Babayeva
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay visited the territories adjacent to the separatist region of South Ossetia within her visit to Georgia on May 20.
She visited the Khurvaleti village bordering with the Tskhinvali region, the Georgian foreign ministry reported.
Pillay met with local residents and observed their living conditions.
She also visited a school in this area. She saw the hard humanitarian situation, predetermined by the restricted movement in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.
Tbilisi broke off relations with Moscow in August 2008 when Moscow crushed a Georgian assault to reassert control over two rebel regions -South Ossetia and Abkhazia- and later recognized the regions. Georgia announced the two unrecognized republics as occupied territories in September 2008.