Foreign office to use “all int’l mechanisms” to protect rights of Georgian fighters captured by Russian forces in Ukraine
The Red Cross Society and Switzerland will be included in the process to mediate between Georgia and Russia to protect the Constitution-guaranteed rights of the Georgian citizens, the body added. Photo via MFA of Georgia
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The Georgian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday said “all international mechanisms” would be used to ensure the protection of the rights of two Georgian fighters, who were captured by Russian military forces during the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The foreign office noted it had been informed “through open sources” that on Tuesday Russian forces had taken the two Georgian fighters, identified only through their initials, hostages in Ukraine.
The Red Cross Society and Switzerland will be included in the process to mediate between Georgia and Russia to protect the Constitution-guaranteed rights of the Georgian citizens, the body added.
A Georgian citizen Levan Dotiashvili illegally detained by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in central Georgia was released on Thursday, following an incident which saw the killing of the country’s national Tamaz Ginturi during an attempt of illegal arrest by occupation forces on Monday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday said his Government had taken “all possible steps” following the killing of a Georgian national by Russian occupying forces near a village adjacent to central Georgia’s occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region on Monday.
Georgian officials and the Public Defender’s Office on Monday reacted to the killing of Georgian citizen Tamaz Ginturi by the Russian-controlled occupation forces in central Georgia, and illegal detention of the country’s national Levan Dotiashvili, in an incident earlier during the day, and called for “immediate punishment” of offenders and the release of the detainee.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday called on the international community to make an “appropriate assessment and response” to the death of a Georgian citizen following an illegal arrest attempt by Russian-controlled occupation forces near a village adjacent to the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region in central Georgia.
Kakha Kaladze, the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party and Tbilisi Mayor, on Wednesday said the Russian occupation of two of the country’s regions was the “biggest problem and challenge” facing it.