MPs Instruct Government to Seek Compensation for Conflicts
The Georgian Parliament unanimously adopted on March 17 two draft resolutions prepared by the parliamentary commission on territorial integrity.
One of the resolutions instructs the Georgian government to set up a state commission, which will study amount of damage the country inflicted as a result of armed conflicts and in a post-conflict period. Shota Malashkhia, chairmen of the commission on territorial integrity said that according to preliminary calculations, this damage has reached about USD 15 billion.
Another resolution envisages announcement of international tender to select a law firm which will defend Georgian citizens and companies’ 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.