Georgian Foreign Ministry condemns meeting of Belarusian President with representative of occupation regime
In its statement, the Ministry said the action “blatantly” violated Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders and noted it was an “attempt to legitimise” the Russian occupation regime. Photo via Foreign Ministry
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The Georgian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday condemned the meeting between Aslan Bzhania, the representative of the occupation regime of Georgia’s Russia-occupied Abkhazia and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
In its statement, the Ministry said the action “blatantly” violated Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders and noted it was an “attempt to legitimise” the Russian occupation regime.
We call on Belarus to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia within its internationally recognised borders and to cease taking the actions, which contradict the fundamental principles and norms of international law” the foreign office stated.
Earlier today Lukashenko and Bzhania held a meeting in Belarus’s capital city of Minsk, where the Belarusian President said he could not understand why the Georgian Government reacted “so sharply” to the meetings with Abkhazians and noted that these meetings “might serve” friendship between Georgians and Abkhazians.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned the recent visit of Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Russian Duma, to Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region, saying the move was “yet another violation of fundamental principles and international law” by Moscow.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said the visit of a delegation of the parliamentary assembly of Belarus and Russia to Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region was “disturbing”.
Georgian foreign minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Thursday said the foreign ministry had taken “all the relevant” diplomatic steps regarding the visit of Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko to Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region in September.
Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze on Wednesday said Tbilisi would have “the strictest reaction” to the recent visit of Belarusian president Aleksandr Lukashenko to Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region, where he met with de facto authorities to discuss “prospects for bilateral cooperation”.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Tuesday “strongly” condemned the meeting between Aslan Bzhania, the de facto “President” of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said the Government's non-recognition policy towards the country’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions was “consistent” and would not be revised, after the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said the conflicts in Georgia could be resolved if Tbilisi pledged “non-use of force” against the de facto authorities and launched “delimitation of borders” with them.