Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Tuesday urged Georgia to hand over to the UN Security Council the video tape showing a fighter jet shooting down an unmanned Georgian spy plane over Abkhazia on April 20, news reaching here from Copenhagen said.
"Russia has asked Georgia to release its tape to the UN Security Council. Russian experts, having looked at the tape on television, have seen inconsistencies and discrepancies, which Georgia must explain," Lavrov told reporters in Copenhagen during a visit to Denmark.
The footage shows an aircraft firing a missile at an unmanned Georgian reconnaissance drone in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia. Georgia accuses that the airplane was a Russian fighter jet.
A U.N. report Monday said radar records and video footage showed the plane was shot down by a missile fired from a Russian aircraft. It also said Georgia violated a ceasefire agreement by flying reconnaissance flights over Abkhazia.
Tbilisi on Tuesday demanded that Russia apologize over the shooting down of the plane in its territory, but Moscow denied any involvement in the incident.
Source:Xinhua
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