UN Security Council discusses Russian flights over S.Ossetia

NEW YORK, July 22 (RIA Novosti) - The United Nations Security Council has held a closed session at Georgia's request to discuss an incursion into Georgian airspace by Russian military aircraft. Georgia requested the session on July 10 in response to an admission by Russia on the same day that its fighters had flown over the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia two days earlier. Russia said it had carried out the flights over fears that Georgia could invade the de facto independent republic. Tbilisi called the flights an act of "military aggression," and recalled its ambassador from Moscow. On Monday, shortly after the Security Council had met, Russia's envoy to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, commented that "Certain countries did not manage to overcome an inclination toward a pro-Georgian position." He also said that Russia... [read full story]