Georgian Parliament Wants Compensation for Conflicts

The Parliament discussed on March 16 a draft resolution prepared by the parliamentary commission on territorial integrity, which envisages setting up of a state commission, which will study amount of damage the country inflicted as a result of armed conflicts and in a post-conflict period.

The initiative also envisages announcement of international tender to select a law firm which will defend Georgia’s interests in the European Court of Human Rights over compensation of damage inflicted to the country by Russia and those Russian companies who illegally operate in breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Chairman of the parliamentary commission on territorial integrity MP Shota Malashkhia, who presented the draft resolution at the session, said that “supposedly this damage has reached about USD 15 billion up to now.”

The draft resolution will most likely be approved by the Parliament, as most parliamentarians hailed the proposal.

MP Malashkhia also said that he has met with President Saakashvili for several times over this issue and the President approved the initiative.