Ruling party executive secretary: Abkhazians, Ossetians can be sure Georgian gov’t will “never seek” deoccupation through war

Without making specific references, the GD official stressed that talking about deoccupation in the context of war was “damaging”. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office

Agenda.ge, 14 Sep 2022 - 18:48, Tbilisi,Georgia

Abkhazians and Ossetians should “know for sure” that no Georgian government will ever follow the path of achieving deoccupation of its territories through war, Mamuka Mdinaradze, the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Wednesday.

There is no citizen of Georgia who will say that we should not walk on the path of deoccupation irreversibly, or that we should not do everything for deoccupation to happen. But whether it should be done through war or peace, my answer is - by peace”, Mdinaradze said.

Without making specific references, the GD official stressed that talking about deoccupation in the context of war was “damaging”.

Abkhazians and Ossetians hear this, and they should know for sure that Georgia and none of its governments will ever follow the path of deoccupation through war. [W]e must regain our territories with the reservation of peace, and the context of military actions should not be linked to it indirectly and covertly”, he concluded.