Parliament Vice Speaker: no integration of Abkhazia with Russia-Belarus union compatible with international laws
Sergeenko was commenting on the statement of the de facto president of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania, who on Thursday said the region was “ready” to join the union of the states of Russia and Belarus. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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Georgian Parliament Vice Speaker Davit Sergeenko on Friday said no kind of integration of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region with the Russia-Belarus union could be compatible with “any international rules or laws”.
Sergeenko was commenting on the statement of the de facto president of Abkhazia Aslan Bzhania, who on Thursday said the region was “ready” to join the union of the states of Russia and Belarus.
In his remarks over the matter, the Parliament official stressed Abkhazia was part of Georgia and the occupation was “temporary”, adding he believed Georgians and Abkhazians would be “together again”.
It is my deep belief that what is happening is so incredible that it will not last long. I believe that we will start speaking in the same language again - I mean a single political vision - and we will be together again”, Sergeenko concluded.
Russia has once again proved its plans for “factual annexation” of the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions of Georgia, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Chair of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Tuesday.
NATO does not recognise the legitimacy of the elections held on Saturday in the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia, Javier Colomina, The NATO Secretary General Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, said on Monday.
Holding the so-called parliamentary elections in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region is a “futile attempt” to legitimise the illegal occupation of the Georgian territories, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia on Monday condemned the second round of the so-called “Presidential elections” held on Sunday in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, pointing out the “illegal action” violated the fundamental principles and norms of the international law and Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders.