Lithuanian Foreign Minister: 'worrying to see' resumption of ‘borderisation’ in Georgia
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani has thanked the international community for "their strong support". Photo: Georgian Foreign Ministry/Twitter
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Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said the resumption of “borderisation” in the Georgian village of Gugutiantkari, Gori Municipality, near the occupation line is “worrying to see”.
Worrying to see resumption of 'borderization' process at the ????????village of Gugutiantkari. Initiated by Russian-backed authorities in Tskhinvali,it worsens the security situation, impedes people-to-people contacts & creates more instability. #Russia must cease these illegal actions pic.twitter.com/BDj6SAJCWR
— Linas Linkevicius (@LinkeviciusL) August 16, 2019
The occupation forces started erection of so-called border in the village of Gugutiantkari on the eve of the eleventh anniversary of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.
Since then a number of countries including Poland, United States and United Kingdom have condemned "borderisation" in Georgia and called on the Russian Federation to withdraw its forces.
Although the Russian Foreign Ministry calls "borderisation" in Georgia "a myth", Georgian Foreign Ministry is grateful to the international community for their "strong support in condemning the illegal erection of artificial barriers".
The Foreign Ministry of Poland “expresses its concern" over the resumption of the installation of artificial barriers "by Russian-backed de facto authorities in Tskhinvali", in the village of Gugutiantkari, Gori Municipality, near the occupation line.
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.
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.
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.
Seven Georgian citizens have been detained near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region for “illegally crossing the border” today. All of them are the locals of the village of Akhalubani, Gori Municipality.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry is concerned by reports that the locals of the village of Akhalubani, in Gori Municipality, have been kidnapped near occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) yesterday. It, therefore, calls on the international community to take “effective measures to stop illegal activities of the occupation forces”.
Yet another Georgian citizen has been detained near the village of Akhalubani, in Gori Municipality, close to occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region for “illegally crossing the border” today. Ioseb Dvalishvili, who is the local of the village of Mejvriskhevi, was taken to Tskhinvali jail together with the other seven people who were detained late yesterday.