OSCE Chairman-in-Office thanks Georgian authorities, citizens for Ukraine support
Russia's “unprovoked” aggression against Ukraine and its “destructive” actions against several other countries in the OSCE area, where Georgia was one of the most “visible examples”, indicated there are attempts to change the borders in Europe by force, Rau stated. Photo:Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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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, has extended his gratitude to Georgian authorities and citizens for their support for Ukraine, noting the OSCE commended the country’s “unconditional” support for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
Speaking on Wednesday at a briefing after his meeting with Georgia’s Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani Rau praised Tbilisi's offer to assist OSCE representatives in the evacuation process from Ukraine amid the ongoing war, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia said.
Russia's “unprovoked” aggression against Ukraine and its “destructive” actions against several other countries in the OSCE area, where Georgia was one of the most “visible examples”, indicated there are attempts to change the borders in Europe by force, Rau stated.
Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The “language of tanks and barbed wire” violates the basic principles of international law, the Chairman-in-Office of OSCE said, adding Russia’s actions were directed not only against sovereignty and territorial integrity in countries like Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova, but also the “fundamental principles” of European security.
Poland, as the OSCE Chairman-in-Office, will spare no effort to make the issue of Georgia topical on the international agenda, said the Polish Foreign Minister while reaffirming the OSCE's “strong support” for the country.
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.
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.
David Zalkaliani, the Georgian Foreign Minister, has been invited to the meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member and allied states, with the event launching next week in Brussels.
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said that NATO’s stance on Georgia and Ukraine is unwavering and that they [partner countries] will tell Russia at NATO-Russia talks today that the alliance’s position towards both countries will not be revised.
The Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe has called on the Georgian political spectrum to work for more unity and more consolidation in the country, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP who chairs the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Wednesday following his meeting with Zbigniew Rau.
Security challenges in the Black Sea region caused by the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili and Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau.
The ongoing hostilities in Ukraine and support for the country amid the Russian invasion, and the situation in the Black Sea region were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili and Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Poland’s Foreign Minister, along with Marek Szczygieł, the Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia, visited parts of the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) with Georgia’s Russian-occupied breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on Wednesday.
Decisions made by the Prime Minister of Georgia amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine are based on “certain information and evidence”, Minister of Justice of Georgia Rati Bregadze said on Sunday in an interview with Imedi TV.
Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of Georgian Parliament, and Teresa Ribeiro, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Representative on Freedom of the Media, met on Friday to discuss the media environment in Georgia.
Michael Carpenter, the United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, on Monday said the Georgian Government behaved “very responsibly” in its stance toward its Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions amid calls for armed action over the territories on the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Reforms and measures aimed at implementing anti-discrimination policy and an efficient work against gender-based crimes were discussed on Friday in a meeting between Alexander Darakhvelidze, the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, and Matteo Mecacci, the Director of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
An Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe resolution on security environment and stability in the OSCE region has called on Russia to de-occupy Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions, after the section was added to the document on the initiative of the Georgian Parliament’s OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation Head.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, was elected as the Chair of the Democracy and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe on Tuesday.
The annual session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe on Wednesday called on Russia to end its occupation of Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions and engage constructively in the Geneva International Discussions.