Parliament Vice Speaker: “truth” about 2008 Russia-Georgia war confirmed in international courts
"Today, the Strasbourg court made a very important decision when it ruled inadmissible to consider the appeals [...] submitted [...] with the support of the Russian Federation,” Talakvadze pointed out. Photo: Agenda.ge
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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.
"Today, the Strasbourg court made a very important decision when it ruled inadmissible to consider the appeals [...] submitted [...] with the support of the Russian Federation,” Talakvadze pointed out.
The ECHR decision indicates the Georgian authorities have “done everything possible” to establish “the truth” about the August 2008 war in the international arena, the MP said.
On Thursday, the Court 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.
"The European Court shared the arguments of the Georgian side that the complaints were manifestly ill-founded, as evidence of a minimum standard could not be presented to substantiate the applicants' claims," Rati Bregadze, the Georgian Justice Minister, said at a briefing later on the day.
In findings related to the complaints, the ECHR found the Tskhinvali region was “actively bombed” by forces of the Russian Federation during the war, and that the Georgian Armed Forces did not exercise control over the region and the surrounding area, the Justice Minister explained.
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 decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against de facto officials of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region concerning cases of crimes committed during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war mark a “win for Georgia”, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP who chairs the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Friday.
The International Criminal Court in Hague has issued arrest warrants against three de facto officials of Georgia's Russian-occupied breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in a case of torture and ill-treatment of Georgian civilians during the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, the Georgian Justice Ministry announced earlier today.
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The pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Thursday issued arrest warrants for three former high-ranking officials in the de facto authorities of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region, in a decision that follows a 2021 European Court of Human Rights ruling over their human rights violations during the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia in the region.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Tuesday called on the international community to “strongly react” to the recent decision of the de facto authorities in Georgia’s Russian-occupied breakaway Abkhazia region to transfer 186 hectares of territory in the Bichvinta resort town to Russia on a 49-year lease.
Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili on Tuesday called for “increased international pressure” over the recent decision of the de facto authorities in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region to transfer 186 hectares of territory in the Bichvinta resort town to Russia on a 49-year lease.
The 2008 war between Russia and Georgia showed “we cannot rely on negotiations with the Kremlin”, Anna Fotyga, a Member of the European Parliament, said ahead of the upcoming 14th anniversary of the Russian invasion that sparked the five-day war between the two states.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on Tuesday said the decision at the NATO Bucharest Summit in 2008 not to grant Ukraine and Georgia the Membership Action Plan had been interpreted by Russia as “weakness” and a “clear invitation” to establish itself militarily in Europe.
Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday praised the “crucial role” of the country’s military retirees in comments marking the Veterans Day, and pledged a five-time increase in their monthly supplements in pledging “continued support” from authorities.
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.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Tuesday endorsed amendments to the resolution on the Russian-occupied territories of Georgia that had been initiated by Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Georgian Parliament.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Tuesday urged an “immediate and unconditional” withdrawal of Russian military forces from Georgia’s occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).