NATO refuses to recognise elections in occupied Abkhazia
“The Alliance continues to support Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders,” Colomina tweeted in his response to the development. Photo:Javier Colomina's Twitter account.
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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.
“The Alliance continues to support Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders,” Colomina tweeted in his response to the development.
NATO does not recognize the legitimacy of the elections which took place on Saturday in the Georgian region of Abkhazia. The Alliance continues to support Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.
— Javier Colomina (@JavierColominaP) March 14, 2022
The de facto authorities of the occupied Abkhazia held so-called parliamentary elections on Saturday.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry called the elections a “futile attempt to legitimise the illegal occupation” of the country’s territories, calling on Russia to withdraw its 2008 recognition of the Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions as independent states.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan said on Monday it does not recognise the so-called parliamentary elections held in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region on Saturday, or the results of the ballot.
Norway refuses to recognise the so-called parliamentary elections held in the Russian-occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia, Helene Sand Andresen, Ambassador of Norway to Georgia and Armenia, said.
Carl Hartzell, the European Union Ambassador to Georgia, said the EU did not recognise the legal framework of the so-called parliamentary elections that took place in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region on March 12.
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 said on Tuesday any agreement between Russia and the de facto “proxy regimes” of Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions were “void” and had “no legal force”, after the Russian President asked the country’s Parliament to ratify an agreement on “dual citizenship” with the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region.
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.
The de facto authorities of Abkhazia have “once again” undermined the principle of the territorial integrity of Georgia, forcing this region further into isolation to the detriment of the local population, Leendert Verbeek, the President of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe (CoE) said in response to the so-called “parliamentary elections” held in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region on Saturday.
Russia’s war against Ukraine must be stopped, with Europe ensuring “such horror and aggression” never repeats “in our common home”, Irakli Chikovani, MP from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party said on Wednesday.
The Group of Friends of Georgia at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe on Friday made a joint statement on not recognising the legitimacy of the so-called “parliamentary elections” held in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region on March 12.
Foreign dignitaries have refused to recognise the so-called presidential elections in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on April 10, reaffirming support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Foreign embassies and dignitaries on Sunday issued condemnations of Russia's ongoing occupation of Georgia's regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and called on the Kremlin to fulfil its obligations under the European Union-mediated ceasefire agreement by withdrawing forces from the occupied regions on the 14th anniversary of the 2008 war between the two countries.
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”.