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Wide exterior of headquarters for Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)2. Mid exterior of headquarters with flags hung on building3. Close-up of flags 4. Wide of various OSCE representatives being seated for...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide exterior of headquarters for Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid exterior of headquarters with flags hung on building\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close-up of flags \u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of various OSCE representatives being seated for meeting\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close-up of sign, reading (English): 'Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia'\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Russian Federation sign\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of meeting, zoom to mid of Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili speaking\u003cbr/\u003e8. Cameraman filming\u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up of notes being taken\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgian Minister for Foreign Affairs: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The first signs we see now from the Russian Federation is that the attempt to make the sense of normalcy, as if nothing has happened, Russian side will be happy enough to cooperate with international missions if they will safeguard the newly created artificial borders of newly created sovereign states, unilaterally by the Russian side. They would cooperate with that but they would never grant access inside of those zones and then this again would be a same case scenario in which it would be a closed area, a grey area, no meaningful international involvement, and then open platform from the Russian Federation for further manipulations, if that is the case. So that's the challenge that we all face.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of meeting\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Tkeshelashvili speaking during news conference\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgian Minister for Foreign Affairs:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The recognition of the independence of those territories in which the wish for so-called independence had been expressed by those who ethnically cleansed effectively those territories from all other members of the local communities is extremely cynical if not anything else. It's mockery of the right of self determination.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid of photographer\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgian Minister for Foreign Affairs:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So it's not even now the boundaries of so-called former autonomous republic of South Ossetia in which the ethnic cleansing is being completed now, but territories outside of that as well. They are the villages like villages in between the zone of conflict and the rest of the Georgian territory surrounding Gori city, in which people are being expelled now, like (unintelligible) for example.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Mid of cameraman\u003cbr/\u003e17. Russian OSCE Ambassador Anvar Azimov speaking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anvar Azimov, Russian OSCE Ambassador:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the days to come we should officially establish diplomatic relations with them. It is an objective reality. Therefore we appeal to the other partners to follow the example of Russia and to recognise these two republics as independent states.\"\u003cbr/\u003e19. Azimov speaking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003eRussian forces and their armed allies have driven all Georgians out of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and are now ethnically cleansing villages in other areas of Georgia, a senior Georgian official charged on Thursday.\u003cbr/\u003eGeorgia's foreign minister, Eka Tkeshelashvili says ethnic cleansing has taken place not only in villages in the two separatist provinces where Georgians and Ossetians once lived together, but also in a so-called buffer zone now being created by Russian troops along the border of those regions.\u003cbr/\u003eTkeshelashvili told reporters at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) the cleansing was carried out by Russian forces who brought along militias and paramilitaries of different ethnic origins, Ossetians, Kossaks, even some Chechen groups.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the beginning of the confrontation, men were executed while women were forced to flee, Tkeshelashvili said on Thursday. \u003cbr/\u003eGeorgians are now being expelled from areas outside South Ossetia, Tkeshelashvili said.\u003cbr/\u003e\"They are the villages like villages in between the zone of conflict and the rest of the Georgian territory surrounding Gori city in which people are being expelled now,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eRussian OSCE Ambassador Anvar Azimov said there was no evidence of ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia or Abkhazia and that some ethnic Georgians left South Ossetia on their own accord before the conflict began.\u003cbr/\u003eTkeshelashvili also said that Russia was trying to create a \"sense of normalcy\" following its war with Georgia.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The first signs we see now from the Russian Federation is that the attempt to make the sense of normalcy, as if nothing has happened,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003eRussia on Tuesday declared it was recognising the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.\u003cbr/\u003eEuropean nations have increased criticism of Russia since it recognised the two territories as independent nations. \u003cbr/\u003eThree weeks ago, Georgian forces launched a massive barrage on South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, only to be quickly driven out by superior Russian firepower.\u003cbr/\u003eRussian troops remain at checkpoints well into Georgia, saying that a ceasefire agreement allows them to occupy \"security zones\" outside Abkhazia and South Ossetia.\u003cbr/\u003eTkeshelashvili questioned Russia's intentions.\u003cbr/\u003e\"(The) Russian side will be happy enough to cooperate with international missions if they will safeguard the newly created artificial borders of newly created sovereign states, unilaterally by the Russian side.\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"They would cooperate with that but they would never grant access inside of those zones and then this again would be a same case scenario in which it would be a closed area, a grey area, no meaningful international involvement, and then open platform from the Russian Federation for further manipulations, if that is the case. So that's the challenge that we all face.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOn Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also suggested that Russia has engaged in ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia.\u003cbr/\u003eAP reporters and television crews have interviewed South Ossetian looters in Georgian villages like Kekhvi, where all Georgian homes were burned down, many a full week after fighting had ended.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Tuesday, over a hundred Georgians fled to Gori from their village of Meghvrekisi after what they said was a night of violence and looting by ethnic Ossetians.\u003cbr/\u003eRussian forces have also shipped busloads of elderly Georgians from South Ossetia to Gori in the last week. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Russians say they were trying to help infirm people find their relatives, but some of elderly felt the Russians and Ossetians were clearing the area of Georgians.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, Azimov urged other countries to also recognise the independence of South Ossetia and 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