Parliament official: Russia establishes “apartheid regime” in Georgia’s occupied regions
The head of the committee highlighted Georgia's assistance to Ukraine, including the sharing of experience, in order for Ukraine to succeed in its disputes with Russia in the international criminal courts, and pointed out that Ukraine had filed a lawsuit in the ICC against Russia with the help of Georgia. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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Russia has established an “apartheid regime” in Georgia’s occupied regions, where ethnic discrimination of Georgians continues, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the head of the Georgian delegation to the OSCE parliamentary assembly and the chair of the parliament's foreign relations committee said on Saturday at the assembly’s autumn meeting in Warsaw.
Samkharadze noted that the facts of discrimination had been confirmed by the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court, and Georgia had won the dispute against Russia, according to which Russian citizens were found guilty of committing war crimes, the press service of parliament said.
In his address, Samkharadze condemned Russia's bombing of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, including energy facilities and stressed it aimed to create a “humanitarian disaster” in the country, adding it had been “very similar” to the scenario created by Russia in Georgia’s occupied territories, where up to 250,000 ethnic Georgians were not allowed to return to their homes and children were unable to receive education in the Georgian language, with the aim of erasing the traces of ethnicity in the regions.
The head of the committee highlighted Georgia's assistance to Ukraine, including the sharing of experience, in order for Ukraine to succeed in its disputes with Russia in the international criminal courts, and pointed out that Ukraine had filed a lawsuit in the ICC against Russia with the help of Georgia.
The “truth” about the 2008 Russia-Georgia war has been confirmed in international courts through Georgia winning legal battles against Russia, Archil Talakvadze, the Georgian Parliament Vice Speaker, said in reaction to the European Court of Human Rights decision on inadmissibility of complaints by residents living in the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) on Thursday.
The European Court of Human Rights has declared inadmissible 370 individual complaints filed against Georgia by residents of the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in connection to the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, Rati Bregadze, the Georgian Justice Minister, said at a briefing on Thursday.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague has confirmed Georgia’s occupation, ethnic cleansing and gross human rights violations by Russia, Sozar Subari, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party, said in comments to this week’s ruling by the Court on torture of Georgian citizens during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war.
The methods used by Russia against the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine are the same it used against Georgia 14 years ago, Nikoloz Samkharadze, who chairs the Georgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Friday.