Tbilisi City Assembly Commission Chairman calls international community to “raise voice” against “alarming developments” in Georgia’s occupied regions
Zhorzholiani was speaking at a session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg today, and noted the Council needed to take “even more effective steps” to prevent deterioration of the situation in the occupied regions of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and Abkhazia.Photo:Tbilisi City Assambly
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Levan Zhorzholiani, the Chairman of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Commission of Tbilisi City Assembly, has called on the international community to “remain vigilant” and “raise its voice” against what he labeled as “alarming developments” in the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia.
Zhorzholiani was speaking at a session of the Council of Europe Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg today, and noted the Council needed to take “even more effective steps” to prevent a deterioration of the situation in the occupied regions of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and Abkhazia.
Marija Pejčinović Burić, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, said at the session Georgia was “another member state” to have experienced Russian aggression, in reference to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine last month.
Burić made the remark to delegates of the The 42nd Plenary Session while reiterating “full support” of Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders.
Tea Akhvlediani, the Georgian State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, discussed the humanitarian situation in Georgia’s Russian-occupied breakaway regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) with Nick Beresford, the UNDP Resident Representative in Georgia, on Thursday.
Security challenges created in the Black Sea region as a result of the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine, and the European Union membership bids submitted by the Associate Trio countries of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova, were discussed at a meeting of Georgian and Polish Prime Ministers on Thursday.
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 presence of the Russian occupation forces in the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) was on the agenda of meetings involving NATO ministers of defence with their Georgian and Ukrainian counterparts in Brussels today, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in comments about the ministerial.
The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the so-called presidential elections held in Georgia’s Russian-occupied breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on Sunday, saying it was “another illegal act” by Russia aimed against Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.