Occupation forces start ‘border’ erection in Gori Municipality [INTERACTIVE MAP]
Russia continues creeping occupation in Georgia and occupies 20% of the country. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The occupation forces have started erecting a so-called border in the village of Gugutiantkari, in Gori Municipality, which is located near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
The work has been in progress since August 7.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry reports that the illegal work along the occupation line will have a negative influence on the peace negotiations that are regularly held by Georgian, Russian, Abkhazian and South Ossetian delegations in Geneva.
The Foreign Ministry has also notified the co-heads of the Geneva talks.
Georgia reiterated that the international community must call on the Russian Federation to fulfill its commitments,” the Foreign Ministry reports.
The area in the village of Gugutiantkari, where illegal activities for erecting a so-called border by occupying forces were reported earlier today:
Shortly afterwards, Georgian Reconciliation Minister Ketevan Tsikhelashvili said the 'border' erection work has been stopped.
No work is in progress at the moment. The EUMM hot line has been activated," Tsikhelashvili said.
Since 2011, Russian occupying forces have been carrying out a so-called creeping occupation and gradually occupying Georgia-controlled area.
Barbed wires, installed by the occupying forces in the village of Khurvaleti are only 400 meters away from the central Georgian highway.
Occupying forces have installed a lookout tower at the Khurvaleti village, near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region to “exercise higher pressure on locals and check how many people are trying to cross illegal barriers,”, Georgian Reconciliation Minister Ketevan Tsikhelashvili says.
New illegal barbed wire fences have been noticed by the locals in the village of Khurvaleti, alongside the occupation line of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) today.
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.
Can you imagine how politics and conflict can make you lose your forefathers? In the Georgian village of Khurvaleti, aggressive politics by the Russian side saw the local population and the village cemetery divided into two isolated parts. Now, the people of Khurvaleti and the graves of their loved ones lie on different sides of barbed wire fence that mark the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) between Georgia and breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The United States “will not stop working until Russia ends its occupation of sovereign Georgian territory”, the US Department of State Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said at a news briefing last night.
The Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a recent news briefing that on the eleventh anniversary of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, “Georgian and Western media and politicians are again trying to play the ‘borderisation’ card”.
Occupation forces have resumed erecting a so-called border near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in the village of Gugutiantkari, in Gori Municipality, after a week-long pause. The work first began on August 7, when occupation forces installed posts for the further installation of barbed wires and stopped afterwards.
Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Lasha Darsalia met with foreign diplomats today to discuss the erection of artificial barriers in the village of Gugutiantkari, in Gori Municipality, and its impact on the local population. Darsalia said such “destructive steps” negatively affect the humanitarian and security situation of people living near the occupation line.
Russian occupation forces have resumed the so-called border installation in the village of Gugutiantkari, Gori Municipality early this morning. Locals say the occupants have been intensively working for two days already, installing metal constructions and barbed wires.
The United State embassy to Georgia “is troubled by reports" that Russian-backed de-facto authorities have resumed the erection of fencing in the village of Gugutiantkari, Gori Municipality, near the Russian occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Two residential houses have ended up beyond the new so-called border that Russian occupants erected in the village of Gugutiantkari, Gori Municipality yesterday though Russian troops have not continued working at the scene yet.
Ambassadors of different countries to Georgia unanimously condemn the creeping occupation of Georgia by Russia and call on Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw troops from Georgia. The ambassadors of Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Israel, Brazil and Japan have visited the village of Gugutiantkari, Gori Municipality today to observe the illegal ‘borderisation’ Russian occupants have been carrying out since August 7.
The United States calls on Russia to suspend its illegal occupation of Georgian territory, the US Department of State Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus stated at a press conference yesterday. She said the US is “troubled by reports that Russian-backed de-facto authorities have resumed the installation of fencing on Georgian territory.”
88-year-old Georgian man Data Vanishvili, whose house and agricultural lands are divided in two by occupying forces, has asked advice from NATO PA President Madeleine Moon, who has visited the occupation line in the village of Khurvaleti earlier today.