US embassy on new barbed wire fences in Georgia: “Russia must end its occupation”
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The US Embassy in Georgia has released a statement regarding the erection of new barbed wire fences in the village of Atotsi of the Kareli municipality in eastern Georgia, near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The embassy says that Russia must end its occupation of Georgian lands.
The U.S. condemns Russia’s “borderization” at Atotsi village. Installing fences harms livelihoods and restricts freedom of movement on both sides of the Administrative Boundary Line. Russia must end its occupation of the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
— U.S. Embassy Tbilisi (@usingeo) November 8, 2018
Russia-controlled forces began the erection of new barbed wire fences on 7 November.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze stated in response that Georgia will never tolerate neither old nor new barbed wire fences.
The Georgian Foreign and Reconciliation ministries have stated that the international community has been informed regarding the illegal action. .
Reconciliation Minister Ketevan Tsikhelashvili says that through the erection of barbed wire fences Russia is attempting to isolate the Tskhinvali region from the outside world.
The Georgian Dream supported presidential candidate Salome Zurabishvili visited Atotsi yesterday, where locals told her that Russian erected the new barbed wire fences on their agricultural lands.
Ruling Georgian Dream party supported independent presidential candidate Salome Zurabishvili has visited the village of Atotsi, where Russia-controlled forces began the erection of new barbed wire fences on 7 November.
Georgian Minister of Reconciliation and Civil Equality Ketevan Tsikhelashvili has come to the Atotsi village of Kareli municipality today, where occupants are erecting new barbed wire fences and stated that through this step, Russia is isolating the Tskhinvali region from the outside world and is creating “unbearable” conditions for ethnic Ossetians.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry has condemned the erection of new illegal barbed wire fences at the villages of Atotsi and Balta of the Kareli municipality, near the country’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in the eastern part of Georgia.
Russia-controlled border guards and the leadership of Georgian eastern occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region are erecting barbed wire fences at the village of Balta, in the Kareli district of Georgia.
A statement made by representative of de-facto Tskhinvali Yegor Kochiev for ‘South Ossetian’ news agency Res clearly shows that the Russian-occupied region plans to continue the borderisation process to “simplify the lives of people” in the unrecognised region.
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The Georgian Foreign Ministry condemns the continued erection of barbed wire fences and other artificial barriers in the village of Atotsi in Kareli Municipality, near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.