State Security Service, EUMM dismiss entry of occupying forces on Tbilisi-controlled territory of Khurvaleti village
Facebook user Luda Salia wrote that occupying forces had entered the village of Khurvaleti and posted a photo: Photo: Luda Salia.
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The Georgian State Security Service and the European Union Monitoring Mission to Georgia (EUMM) have dismissed reports by a Facebook user that occupying forces have entered the Tbilisi-administered territory of the Khurvaleti village at the occupation line between Georgia’s breakawayTskhinvali (South Ossetia) region and the rest of Georgia and are now standing in the yards of locals.
It has not been confirmed that the occupying forces are on the Tbilisi-administered territory. The State Security Service calls upon everyone to refrain from provocative statements”, the agency reported.
The State Security Service added that “any activity by the occupying forces strains the situation on the ground.”
The EUMM head to Georgia Erik Hoeg tweeted:
#EUMM patrols are currently monitoring in the area of Didi Khurvaleti. No signs of new borderisation activities. Security actors are present but we register no incidents. All mechanisms, including Hotline, are being used to ensure communication.
— Erik Hoeg (@erik_hoeg) March 15, 2019
Occupying forces installed a lookout tower at the Khurvaleti village early in February, in the village which is actually cut in two by illegal barbed-wire-fences.
Two Georgian regions Abkhazia and Tskhinvali are currently occupied by Russia.
A creeping occupation and the erection of illegal boards and barriers have become the part of the unlawful process starting from the Russia-Georgia war in 2008.