Georgia expects European Parliament resolution to once again condemn Russian aggression
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Georgia expects the European Parliament to once again condemn Russian aggression in a resolution following discussions on the results of Russian occupation of Georgian territories planned for today, according to the website of the European Parliament.
During the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, MEPs will discuss the issue of the Georgian occupied territories, ten years to the day since the Russian invasion.
The text of the resolution already exist however it could be changed as a result of discussions, according to Natalie Sabanadze, the Georgian ambassador to the European Union.
"We have been working on the resolution for a long time. We started negotiations with the European Parliament about six months ago. Ten years pass from the Russia-Georgia war this summer and we expect that Russian aggression will be once again condemned as well as the results of the occupation analysed. In fact, considering the results, we could say that the war is over but Russian aggression still continues, especially on our occupied territories. Accordingly, it is very important for the European Parliament to express its position,” Sabanadze said.
The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini will open the session involving discussions on Georgia’s occupied territories and Russian aggression today.
The European Parliament says that three Eastern Partners – Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova – have done well with their reform agenda so they deserve to be offered greater benefits at the upcoming Eastern Partnership summit.
The final hearing in the case of Georgia v. Russia has come to the end at the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. Georgia’s British lawyer Ben Emerson, a representative of Russian Justice Ministry and the lawyer of the state of Russia, addressed a panel of 17 judges.
The 43rd round of the Geneva International Discussions - international talks launched to address the consequences of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war - took place in the end of March, this year. The participants agreed to hold the next round of talks in June 2018.
The Georgian Justice Ministry is drafting a lawsuit for the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against Russia over the high-profile Archil Tatunashvili’s case.35-year-old Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili died in Georgia’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on February 23 and was returned to his family for burial only about a month later.
The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and more than thirty European Parliament members from eight different political groups took part in discussions on Russian aggression in Georgia yesterday.
President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Irakli Kobakhidze, and Director General for Enlargement at the European Commission Christian Danielsson opened the international conference in Batumi today.
The European Parliament today adopted a resolution supporting Georgia’s territorial integrity and condemning Russia’s occupation of historic territories of Georgia. The resolution text, approved 10 years after the Russian invasion, reads that the EU strongly supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognised borders.