Head of EU-funded mission, probing into the August war, Heidi Tagliavini, met with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Grigory Karasin, on July 28 in Moscow.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in its press release that the Russian side underlined once again “importance of objective assessment of causes of happened in [August, 2008] and the exact sequence of events.”

It also said that the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister stressed on “relevance to documentary confirm the fact of Georgia’s aggression against South Ossetia… with taking into account all the materials handed over previously to the experts of the mission by the Russian side, as well as by representatives of other countries and international organizations.”

The inquiry mission with an official name Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, was initially expected to table conclusions by July 31, but it requested two more months.