Russian Church calls on CE to avoid "political corruption" at Caucasus Discussion
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Moscow, September 26, Interfax - The Moscow Patriarchate hopes that at the upcoming discussion of the events in South Ossetia by the Council of Europe will refrain from "bloc thinking" and stay committed to protecting human rights.
"What else would be logical to expect in this situation from the Council of Europe? First of all, an honest, principled approach to the problem, which would involve the discussion of all decisions that have already been made on unilateral recognition of the independence of the new nations in Europe," Russian Church representative in Strasbourg Hegumen Philaret (Bulekov) wrote in an article published in the Vedomosti newspaper on Friday.
In that case "all such decisions would either have to be questioned or, if all of them are recognized, the most important thing will have to be addressed, that is setting the common rules of game" which would apply to all Europeans, he said.
At the same time, some of the recent statements by its representatives have shown that the Council of Europe is ready to "give up its own values and yield to the temptation of swaying towards bloc thinking, [to start] looking for and siding with the strongest one and make the human rights rhetoric serve for one of the parties," he said.
"The Georgian-Russian conflict [...] has presented the Council of Europe with a serious choice: to show to the world yet another example of political corruption or to follow its mandate and vocation by acting as a humanitarian arbiter, who is not so much concerned with the circumstances of what happened as with the long-term implications of this international and inter-human conflict," the Moscow Patriarchate's representative said.
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http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5199
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