Interior Minister lays wreaths at memorial of police officers killed in 2008 war
Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri on Monday honoured the memory of the police officers killed in the Russia-Georgia 2008 war. Photo: Interior Ministry press office
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Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri on Monday laid wreaths at the memorial of police officers killed in the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, as part of events commemorating the 14th anniversary of the conflict.
The war in August 2008 claimed the lives of 14 employees of the Interior Ministry and five others from the body’s Coast Guard Department, with the memorial in their memory subsequently placed in the yard of the Ministry offices in the Georgian capital.
On the 14th anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war of August 2008, the Minister of Internal Affairs, along with his deputies, laid a wreath at the memorial of the police officers fallen in the line of duty.https://t.co/eHXiocGr35 pic.twitter.com/hebpqvMUeG
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In his comments on the war anniversary, PM Irakli Garibashvili said on Monday his Government would “do its best" to ensure "peace, stability and development" of the country.
In his remarks for the anniversary, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili suggested Russia's aggression against Georgia in 2008, in Ukraine in 2014 and again this year were a “part of one, large-scale aggression”.
In comments on international reactions to Russia’s invasion in 2008, Papuashvili said the absence of the international community’s “principled position” over the war had encouraged Russia to later proceed with its “aggressive policy” against Ukraine.
- The war between Russia and Georgia took the lives of 169 servicemembers and professionals of the Ministry of Defence, along with 19 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and 224 civilians.
- Around 30,000 citizens of Georgia were forced to abandon their homes in the now-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.