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

Agenda.ge, 10 Oct 2023 - 14:03, Tbilisi,Georgia

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”.