OSCE Chairman-in-Office to meet Georgian officials this week
Between Tuesday and to Friday, Rau will hold meetings with high-level officials of the South Caucasus states. Photo: Reuters
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Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, will visit Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia for meetings with officials of the states starting today, the OSCE said.
Between Tuesday and to Friday, Rau will hold meetings with high-level officials of the South Caucasus states.
In Georgia, he will sit down with President Salome Zourabichvili, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, and First Deputy Chairman of the Parliament Giorgi Volski.
The Europe-wide organisation said the official trip would focus on promoting peaceful cooperation, dialogue, and stability in the South Caucasus region.
The Georgian Government remains committed to the policy of peaceful de-occupation and will resist “all provocations” aimed at escalating a new military confrontation with “our Abkhaz and Ossetian brothers and sisters,” Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Monday.
The ruling Georgian Dream party and opposition MPs on Sunday asserted the country was on a “peaceful path” and would not get involved in war, following remarks by Oleksiy Danilov, the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, who said Georgia would “greatly help” Ukraine by opening military fronts against Russia to forcefully regain control over the occupied breakaway Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
A majority of Georgian citizens agree with the Government’s decision not to join economic sanctions against Russia following the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine last month, a poll by the Georgian Opinion Research Business International (GORBI) shows.
The Georgian Government’s stance on not imposing sanctions against Russia remains unchanged and “no one can change” it, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party head Irakli Kobakhidze said on Wednesday.
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Russia's aggression against Ukraine and deteriorating security situation in the occupied regions of Georgia were discussed at the meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs David Zalkaliani and Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, on Wednesday.
Georgia is a “strong supporter” of Ukraine in all international formats, Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said on Wednesday in a briefing with Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.