Parliament official notes “security challenges” in Georgia’s occupied regions at OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Georgian Parliament, highlighted the “security challenges” in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and emphasised the need for unity “to protect the common European values” at the 23rd Winter Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna.

In her address, Botchorishvili said the European Union was “the best example” of how the states “can peacefully coexist and work together to ensure a common future”, stressing the necessity to immediately expand “this space of peace, security and prosperity”, the Parliament press office said.

Georgia has expressed its determination to be a part of the European family and has recently joined the group of candidate countries that aspire to membership in the EU”, the Committee Chair emphasised.

She also pointed out that the disinformation campaigns spread by domestic radical opposition against Georgia often used international formats to create “a wrong impression” about Georgia and its Government.