PM visits memorial on anniversary of fall of occupied Abkhazia’s capital
Together with the speaker of the parliament Shalva Papuashvili and mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze, Garibashvili also unveiled a bust paying homage to the national hero of Georgia Zhiuli Shartava. Photo: Government Administration
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Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday visited the Tbilisi memorial of those who died in conflicts for the territorial integrity of Georgia, as part of events marking the 29th anniversary of the fall of Sokhumi, the capital of Georgia’s north-western region of Abkhazia, in the 1992-1993 war in the region currently occupied by Russia.
The head of the government decorated the memorial with a wreath and paid tribute to the memory of the dead, the government administration said.
Together with the speaker of the parliament Shalva Papuashvili and mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze, Garibashvili also unveiled a bust paying homage to the national hero of Georgia Zhiuli Shartava.
Shartava, the chairman of the council of ministers of Abkhazia, was killed on September 27, 1993, on the day of the fall of Sokhumi, after separatist forces in the region captured him along with a small group of other Georgian and Abkhaz government officials and staff in the city.
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