Ruling party head: Georgians, Abkhazians, Ossetians getting involved in war should not be allowed again
In his remarks over the matter, the GD official stressed “if we theoretically imagine” Georgians going to war to restore control in the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions, the conflict could be a “fratricidal war”, which he said the Georgian government would not allow. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said “any war where Georgians and Abkhazians, and Georgians and Ossetians face each other” with weapons again should not be allowed.
When it comes to the deoccupation [of the country’s Russian-occupied regions], values are also important here, and one of the values for us should be the restoration of the relations that were artificially interrupted between Georgians and Abkhazians, Georgians and Ossetians”, Kobakhidze said in reference to Russian involvement in the two conflicts.
“We must be careful about this, and therefore, we must not allow any war where Georgians and Abkhazians, and Georgians and Ossetians once again confront each other with weapons in their hands”, Kobakhidze said.
In his remarks over the matter, the GD official stressed “if we theoretically imagine” Georgians going to war to restore control in the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions, the conflict could be a “fratricidal war”, which he said the Georgian government would not allow.
If we theoretically assume that we have to go to war in Tskhinvali, Abkhazia - you enter into a war not only with the Russian occupying forces, but also with Abkhazians and Ossetians, which we went through 30 years ago. This can easily be called a fratricidal war, which we cannot allow”, he concluded.
The citizens living in Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories should know the Government’s position that the country’s territorial integrity can only be restored through peaceful means and not through use of force, Sozar Subari, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, said at a Parliament plenary sitting today.
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 opposition is trying to “artificially create” a situation to present the Georgian Government as not being in solidarity with Ukraine amid Russian invasion of the latter in an “absurd” attempt, Mikheil Sarjveladze, the Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the Georgian Parliament, told Imedi TV on Friday.
Abkhazians and Ossetians should “know for sure” that no Georgian government will ever follow the path of achieving deoccupation of its territories through war, Mamuka Mdinaradze, the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Wednesday.
Security environment in the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia and in the vicinity of the occupation line, as well as the illegal actions of the occupation forces, were discussed on Friday in a meeting between the Georgian foreign minister Ilia Darchiashvili and the co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions from the UN and OSCE - Cihan Sultanoğlu and Viorel Moșanu.
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