Reconciliation Minister: “We face not a banner, but serious forces behind banners”
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Georgia’s Reconciliation Minister Ketevan Tsikhelashvili made a statement concerning the importance of the peaceful resolution of conflicts and stressed Georgia faces not a banner erected by occupants, but serious forces behind the banners.
This is not a challenge for only Georgia’s security. This is a challenge for the region and for Europe,” Tsikhelashvili stated after today’s governmental meeting over Russia’s continued occupation of Georgian lands.
The Minister stressed that Russia’s actions on the territory of Georgia, which deprived locals of access to their own lands, families, cemeteries, sacred places and similar, was a "pain for all Georgians and not only for the people.”
Tsikhelashvili stated that Georgia’s policy for de-occupation is peaceful and "very principled”, which, first of all, envisages providing strong international support against Russia’s illegal actions.
Russia occupies twenty percent of Georgian land, in the Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and Abkhazia regions and continues a policy of creeping occupation onto Georgian territory since the Russia-Georgia war in 2008.
Georgia’s Minister of Reconciliation and Civil Equality Ketevan Tsikhelashvili says that Russia’s actions on the Georgian soil are not a creeping occupation, rather "it is a very open and dynamic occupation process.”
The Russian occupation forces deployed in central Georgia have moved the occupation line further into Georgian territory. This step saw about 10 more hectares of Georgian soil in the heart of the country now become occupied by Russia.
Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani spoke about the results of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war at the OSCE’s 2017 Annual Security Review Conference in Vienna, Austria yesterday.
The detainee, 40-year-old Kakhaber Kisishvili was reportedly detained in the village of Otrevi in the Gori Municipality near the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Davit Dondua introduced the diplomatic corps to the recent developments in the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The Russian occupation of Georgian territories and recent acts of land-grabbing were discussed at the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) yesterday.
A group of Georgian citizens have gathered near the occupation line separating the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region from the rest of Georgia today.
Three men have been detained by so-called border guards near Georgia's Russian-occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) in two days.
The creeping occupation continues in Georgia as Russian occupation forces dig out trenches along the village of Artsevi in occupied Tskhinvali region (South Osetia), ostensibly to prevent the spread of wild fires.