Georgian MFA calls on world to condemn Abkhazia elections

Georgian authorities are condemning the "illegal act” of the Abkhazia Presidential Elections and are calling on the international community to do the same.

Official Tbilisi reacted to the recent elections in Georgia’s breakaway region with a strict statement released by the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"This illegal act represents yet another unsuccessful attempt of disguising ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of people by elements of ostensible democratic governance,” read the statement.

The Ministry called on the international community to condemn the "so-called elections” and reminded people of how the situation develop in the region over the past two decades.

"For the past twenty years people displaced from Georgia's occupied regions are deprived of the right to return to their places of residence whereas the fundamental rights and freedoms of a small number of population still living in these regions, in particular their civil, economic and social rights, are violated every day by the occupation regimes,” the Ministry said in a statement published on the Ministry’s official website.

"Of particular concern are the de-facto regime's statements calling for the harassment and in some cases, even for the expulsion of ethnic Georgians living in the Abkhazian region.”

As said in its statement, international observers including the EU Monitoring Mission have no access to the Georgian breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.