PM Bakhtadze thanks Polish parliament for adoption of resolution against Russian aggression in Georgia

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has thanked the Polish parliament for adoption of a resolution on the 10th anniversary of the Russia Georgia 2008 war and stated that the step once again demonstrates international intolerance to the Russian illegal actions in historic Georgian regions. 

The resolution demonstrates that the international community will never accept Russian aggression.” 

It is vitally important that, on this issue, Georgia enjoys firm support from its partners, friends, and the entire international community,” Bakhtadze said. 

He stated that it is important that the resolution  also condemns the human rights violations in Georgia's occupied territories, including the local population's kidnapping, murder, and torture. 

The Polish parliament adopted the resolution on 23 October. 

The Sejm of the Republic of Poland recalls the first military aggression in the post-war history of Europe of a neighbouring nation on a sovereign nation and the occupation of its territory, lasting to the present day, as well as the historic visit of the late Lech Kaczyński, President of the Republic of Poland in Tbilisi on 12 August 2008, which was an unprecedented expression of support for the independent Georgia,” the resolution reads. 

The resolution says that Poland is opposed to any and all actions, the aim of which is to interfere in the sovereign right of the Tbilisi government to exercise rule over the territory of Georgia, and “firmly condemns murder, kidnapping, the use torture and other acts of violence towards Georgian citizens on the occupied lands.”