10 years since the Russia-Georgia war: several high-ranking guests arrive in Tbilisi today
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Several high-ranking guests from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine will arrive in Georgia today to participate in events dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.
The remainder will come to Tbilisi tomorrow to meet with the Georgian president, prime minister and parliament chair and participate in a round table discussion organised by Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
10 years ago #Russia invaded the independent state of #GeorgiaFM #Czaputowicz during press briefing: FMs of @LinkeviciusL, of @edgarsrinkevics , and myself are going to Georgia to commemorate the war’s victims and to show our solidarity with the People of pic.twitter.com/wNiTuUcc8K
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs (@PolandMFA) August 6, 2018
Foreign Ministers of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, vice prime ministers of Ukraine and Estonia will visit Khurvaleti village tomorrow, at the occupation line between Georgia and its occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The main topic of the round table will be ‘Peace and Security – 10 Years Since the Russia-Georgia War’.
Throughout 10years of Russia's aggression&occupation of 2 #GEO regions, we have demonstrated firm determination towards peaceful conflict resolution. We should remain united&send a message that Russia must stop its aggressive policy&respect GEO's sovereignty&territorial integrity pic.twitter.com/uGyMCYOJWy
— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) August 6, 2018
Challenges facing peace and security in Europe will be discussed within the format of a round table talk. Special attention will be paid to the peaceful resolution of conflicts in the region. Talking points will also include the Russia-Georgia conflict, the severe humanitarian situation in Georgia’s occupied territories and the Georgian government’s peace policy,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry reported.
The initiative of visiting Georgia on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war was put forward by Lithuania and Poland.
Consequences of Russian aggression in 2008 in Georgia include:
- Human loss: 412 killed on the Georgian side – including 170 military servicemen, 14 policemen and 228 civilians.
- 1,747 wounded on the Georgian side – including 973 military servicemen, 227 policemen and 547 civilians.
- Three journalists killed, six journalists wounded.
- 130, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) – out of which 26,000 are still denied the right of return. [Overall, the number of IDPs from both occupied regions is now close to half a million].
- 35,000 houses burned, ruined and destroyed.
- 125 more villages have been occupied since the August 2008 war.
"Lithuania stands by Georgia”, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius said in Georgian in his video address released today that was devoted to 10 years since the Georgian-Russian war.
High ranking guests from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine will visit Georgia on August 6-7 to mark the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
The US Embassy to Georgia has released a statement over the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
Georgia strongly condemns the recent ratification of an agreement between Russia and Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region to establish and mark the state border around the occupied territory.
Top Georgian officials, the foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine have commemorated the Russia-Georgia 2008 war on its 10th anniversary and spoke about the fatal consequences of the short but violent war.
The European Union wrote in its official statement today that on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war, the union remains committed to a peaceful resolution of conflict as strongly as ever.
The Friends of Georgia Group in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has initiated a video on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Chrystia Freeland says in her statement on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war that Canada will continue to work with its international partners to hold Russia accountable for its ‘deplorable and unlawful behaviour’.
On the 10th anniversary of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war the office of the United Nations Secretary-General has released a statement, in which the Secretary-General recalls the necessity of resolving this and other protracted conflicts in Europe.
Minister of Defense Levan Izoria with the Chief of Staff General-Mayor Vladimer Chachibaia has paid tribute to soldiers who died in the battle of Shindisi during the Russia-Georgia war in 2008.
The Georgian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport says that a new elective course ‘Defence and Security’ will be introduced for 10th-graders in several Georgian public schools as a pilot project. The course will be taught by servicemen.
Defence Minister of France Florence Parly has spoken about the importance of close cooperation between the US and the EU and used Georgia and Ukraine as examples, saying that the repetition of such conflicts will seriously affect both the EU and the United States.
Eleven years have passed since the most tragic day in the recent history of Georgia – the beginning of the five-day war between Russia and Georgia in 2008. Today the Georgian Foreign Ministry issued a statement regarding the date, saying that 11 years on from the war, Russia still continues its occupation and practical annexation of two Georgian regions, Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia).
The Delegation of the European Union to Georgia has condemned the ongoing occupation of two of Georgia's regions by the Russian military on the anniversary of the 2008 war between the two countries.
Two individuals have been killed and 15 others injured in a road accident near the Russian Lipetsk district yesterday as a bus on the Moscow-Tbilisi route overturned on a frozen road, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reports. Those killed were Georgian citizens, as well as the injured, the Georgian news agency Netgazeti said.