Parliament Vice Speaker says “no-one can rewrite Georgia’s history” in response to former Russian President’s social media post
Talakvadze noted the Georgian Government's “number one task” had been to continue “fighting peacefully”, in compliance with the international principles, to restore the country's territorial integrity and to protect long-term security. Photo: Parliament of Georgia.
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Georgia has a 5,000-year history of existence and no-one can rewrite it, Archil Talakvadze, the Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, said on Tuesday in response to a now-deleted post published on a social media channel of Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev.
Talakvadze made the comment in reaction to the post that said Georgia had been created within the Russian Empire and could be “united” as part of Russia alongside its Russian-occupied regions of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and Abkhazia.
Talakvadze said the mentioned statement “once again” confirmed that Georgia has to “cross a difficult bridge” in time of “specific threats and challenges”, amid Russia's ongoing occupation of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions and its invasion of Ukraine.
Talakvadze noted the Georgian Government's “number one task” had been to continue “fighting peacefully”, in compliance with the international principles, to restore the country's territorial integrity and to protect long-term security.
The post on Medvedev's page conveyed Russia's imperialist views and said that after the return of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, Russia would restore its borders, for which “blood had been spilled for years”. It was also noted that Georgia had not existed as a country, and had only consisted of five sovereign political units before it became part of the Russian Empire in 1801.
The post was later deleted, after which Medvedev's assistant Oleg Osipov said that former President's page in the Russian social media, VKontakte, was hacked.
The Georgian Government remains committed to the policy of peaceful de-occupation and will resist “all provocations” aimed at escalating a new military confrontation with “our Abkhaz and Ossetian brothers and sisters,” Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Monday.
The ruling Georgian Dream party and opposition MPs on Sunday asserted the country was on a “peaceful path” and would not get involved in war, following remarks by Oleksiy Danilov, the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, who said Georgia would “greatly help” Ukraine by opening military fronts against Russia to forcefully regain control over the occupied breakaway Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Thursday issued arrest warrants for three former high-ranking officials in the de facto authorities of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, in a decision that follows a 2021 European Court of Human Rights ruling over their human rights violations during the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia in the region.
Michael Gahler, a member of the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, on Tuesday called the “colonial” Soviet Russian empire the “only artificial construction”, in response to a now-deleted post published on a social media channel of Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev that claimed Georgia “did not exist” as a country until its becoming a part of the Russian empire in 1801.
The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed on Thursday a resolution calling for protection of civilians amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, co-sponsored by 90 states including Georgia.