President Margvelashvili: Future of Sokhumi begins with reconciliation
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The President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili is honouring those who died serving their homeland as the country marks 21 years since the fall of Sokhumi, the capital city of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia.
President Margvelashvili laid a wreath at the memorial of the heroes fallen in the fight for unity at Heroes' Square in Tbilisi and expressed his condolences to their families.
"This was the day when Sokhumi fell. The day when the brothers' war ended with the fall of Sokhumi. That was the end of the war while the future will return to Sokhumi through brothers' reconciliation," the president said.
He attended the memorial with Georgia's Defence Minister Irakli Alasania and Chief of Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces General-Major Vakhtang Kapanadze as well as other representatives of the President's Administration.
Today, 21 years have passed since the capital city of Georgia's breakaway region Abkhazia fell as a result of the war that lasted for 13 months and 13 days.
The country’s Prime Minister is remembering those who died while serving their country at the 21st anniversary of the fall of Sokhumi which led to Abkhazia becoming a breakaway region of Georgia.
Georgia is remembering those who died serving their homeland as the country marks 22 years since the fall of Sokhumi, the capital city of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
September 27, 1993 was the day when tens of thousands of people died, hundreds of thousands of people became internally displaced (IDPs) within their own homeland, and Tbilisi lost control of Abkhazia region in north-western Georgia.
It's been 21 years since the capital city of Georgia's breakaway region Abkhazia fell as a result of a war that lasted for 13 months and 13 days.