Russian delegation left UN General Assembly when Georgia's president was speaking

The Russian delegation left the UN General Assembly hall during the speech of President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in disagreement with his anti-Russian rhetoric, said Alexander Lukashevich, the spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Even before his speech, Saakashvili accused Russia of capturing new territories in the vicinity of the Georgian-South-Ossetian border. At the background of the diplomatic scandal, residents of the areas adjacent to South Ossetia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that they feel fear after the erection of engineering barriers on the border.

The diplomatic incident occurred in the evening on September 25, when at the UN session Saakashvili criticized Russia and Russia's policies of Russia in the former Soviet territory.

Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Permanent Representative at the UN, has treated Saakashvili's speech as "Russophobic" and "anti-Orthodox".

On the eve of his speech at the UN General Assembly, the Georgian president said that in recent days, as a result of fencing the border with South Ossetia, his country lost more farmland than owned by the villages of Kurta and Tamarasheni, which after the war in August 2008 occurred under the control of the authorities of South Ossetia.

Saakashvili also added that Russia "continues its occupation of Georgia", and under the current new government it has no longer anything to do with the Russian President Vladimir Putin's personal attitude to him.