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Lithuania enacts restrictions for individuals who violate the rights of Georgians in occupied regions

In an official statement about the restrictions, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry spoke about the violation of human rights in the Georgian occupied regions. Photo: study in Lithuania.

Agenda.ge, 02 Aug 2018 - 18:51, Tbilisi,Georgia

The Georgian Foreign Ministry says that Lithuania has set migration restrictions for people who have violated the rights of Georgian citizens in the Georgian occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) since the 1990s.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry says that the decision has already been made as the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has tasked the country’s migration service to do so.

The Parliament of Georgia supported the creation of the Otkhozoria-Tatunashvili list in March this year, which will include people who have violated the rights of Georgian citizens in the country’s occupied territories.

33 individuals have been put onto the list - the number is expected to rise.

Otkhozoria and Tatunashvili are the surnames of Georgian nationals who were killed in the Georgian breakaway territories in 2016 and 2018.

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