US Congressman: “Russian Bear wastes no opportunity to showcase its evil intentions”
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The US Congressman Ted Poe has released a statement concerning Russia’s illegal actions in Georgia.
The Russian Bear wastes no opportunity to showcase its evil intentions and flagrant disregard for international law and basic human decency,” Poe wrote.
The congressman stated that last month three Georgian citizens were detained by forces in the Russian-occupied Georgian region of South Ossetia.
The Russian Bear wastes no opportunity to showcase its evil intentions and flagrant disregard for international law and basic human decency. See my full release: https://t.co/gb2PAIaOg1pic.twitter.com/Zr6ad3aPpb
— Ted Poe (@JudgeTedPoe) March 14, 2018
Tragically, one of the Georgians detained, Archil Tatunashvili, was tortured and ultimately killed while in detention, and the Russian-backed separatist authorities are still refusing to turn over his corpse to his family,” he said.
The congressman underscored that "only terrorists and hateful regimes” intent on evil would stoop so low as to refuse to turn over the body of the fallen.
The tyrannical regime of Vladimir Putin is not satisfied by kidnapping and murdering his own people alone, he wants to bring his tyranny to all the former Soviet Republics and usher in a new dark age of Russian hostile intimidation throughout Eastern Europe,” Poe said.
He declared that the latest "egregious move” by the Russians in Georgia must not pass in silence.
Poe stated that Russia "must pay a price” for its ongoing violation of Georgia’s territorial integrity and the crimes against the people of Georgia.
Georgia has gained the support of Republican and Democratic parties within US Congress in its journey to closer ties with NATO.
U.S. Senator Ted Poe met Irakli Garibashvili yesterday and told the Georgian leader he and many other influential American’s believed Georgia should be granted a MAP by the end of this year.
"Russia shows blatant disregard for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity”, a recent video of the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office says. Showing the pattern of Russian state aggression against various countries, including Georgia, the video gives examples of Russian aggressive activities in different times.
The Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg highlighted the case of the death of Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili in the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region during his meeting with the Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili in Brussels, Belgium today.
Georgia has expelled one of 10 Russian diplomats serving at the Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Tbilisi in a show of solidarity with the United Kingdom (UK) over a recent nerve agent poisoning on the territory of UK, referring to the case of Sergei Skripal and his daughter. Georgia and Russia have no direct diplomatic ties since the Russia-Georgia 2008 war and Switzerland is the third country mediating diplomatic issues between the two countries.
Russia has demanded expultion of a Georgian diplomat at the Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow, following Georgia’s decision on March 29 to expel a Russian diplomat in a show of solidarity with the United Kingdom (UK) over the case of the nerve agent poisoning on the territory of UK of Sergei Skripal and his daughter.