“We are trapped here," admitted Javier Solana to the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in Brussels telling the Committee that Kosovo's campaign for independence could set an unwanted precedent for Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Russia for a long time now is speculating that it won’t be able to ignore “the will of people” of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and allow Europe to apply “double standards” to conflicts which Russia considers to be similar to the one in Kosovo, which being by 90 percent populated by Albanians is (it seems successfully) seeking an independence from Serbia.

"President [of Georgia] Saakashvili is trapped; all of us are trapped in a double mechanism that may have good consequences for one, but not for the other. It may not be a win-win situation -- although we should be able to look [for] and find a win-win solution. But it will not be easy." Solana told the Committee.

And Tbilisi seems to have found one. Or it has found Tbilisi. The trick is an alternative ballot to the upcoming South Ossetian presidential elections and referendum.

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