Parliament official: "important" for int'l partners to condemn Russia’s reported plans for base in occupied Abkhazia
Samkharadze evaluated the declarations adopted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Monday, where the bloc's members condemned the alleged plans and said it posed a threat of future destabilisation in the Black Sea region. Photo: Nikoloz Samkharadze's Twitter page
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Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Georgian Parliament, on Tuesday said it was "important" for the international community and the country’s Western partners to condemn Russia’s reported plans to establish a naval military base in the city of Ochamchire in Georgia’s occupied region of Abkhazia.
Samkharadze evaluated the declarations adopted by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Monday, where the bloc's members condemned the alleged plans and said it posed a threat of future destabilisation in the Black Sea region.
In his remarks Samkharadze said the reported information was “another very serious violation" of Georgia's territorial integrity that violated the August 12, 2008 ceasefire agreement between the two countries.
The comments followed comments by Aslan Bzhania, the de facto President of the Abkhazia region, who last week told the Russian media he had signed a “new agreement” with the Kremlin over the deployment of the permanent naval base in the city of Ochamchire "in the near future”.
The Georgian parliamentary delegation, led by Irakli Beraia, the Chair of the Defence and Security Committee, is participating in the 69th Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Copenhagen.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Friday said Russia’s “illegal move” to establish a permanent naval military base in the Russian-occupied north-western Abkhazia region’s city of Ochamchire was a “direct threat” to Georgia, its European aspirations, as well as to the Black Sea security.
Peter Stano, the European Union Spokesperson for External Affairs, on Friday said the bloc expressed “strong concern” about Russia’s reported plans to establish a naval military base in Georgia’s Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia.
Paweł Herczyński, the Ambassador of the European Union to Georgia, on Friday said media reports about alleged plans for a Russian naval military base in Georgia’s Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia were “extremely worrying”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday called Russia’s plans to deploy a permanent naval military base in the Russian-occupied north-western Abkhazia region’s city of Ochamchire - a continuation of the occupation.
The Georgian foreign office on Thursday said it was “concerned” by Moscow’s plans to deploy a permanent naval military base in the Russian-occupied north-western Abkhazia region’s city of Ochamchire.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said “any action” carried out in Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories was “completely unacceptable”, in response to reports that said the Kremlin had decided to transfer ships of its Black Sea Fleet from Ukraine’s occupied Crimea peninsula to the port of the city of Ochamchire in Georgia’s occupied Abkhazia region.