President Zurabishvili calls on int’l community to react to the violation of humanitarian principles in Russian-occupied Tskhinvali

In her letters President Zurabishvili called upon the international community to ‘react through all possible means to such violation of elementary humanitarian principles’. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.

Agenda.ge, 19 Feb 2020 - 15:04, Tbilisi,Georgia

President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili has called upon the international community to react to the violation of elementary humanitarian principles in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region after the confiscation and prohibition of Georgian-labeled medicines from the occupied territory.

On February 17, 2020, Radio Liberty reported that two pharmacies in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region had a number of Georgian-labeled medicines confiscated by the de-facto Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tskhinvali region.

Zurabishvili sent a written appeal to Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and Tedros Abhanom Ghebreyesus, the Secretary General of the World Health Organisation.