Georgia Calls for Transparent UN Discussions on Abkhazia

Georgia’s Ambassador to the UN Revaz Adamia accused Russia of blocking Georgia’s envoy from speaking at the Security Council’s closed-door session on March 28, which discussed the text of a resolution on Abkhazia.

At a news conference in New York, Ambassador Adamia also expressed complaints about the representative of Argentina, who currently holds the Presidency in the Security Council.

“Unfortunately, the Security Council preferred to conduct so-called ‘closed consultations’, without the attendance of not only the general public and media, but also the Georgian representatives. Here I should emphasize that this is a procedural matter and no member of the Council has the right to veto a decision. Usually, when somebody in the Council opposes this or that procedural matter, how to proceed very much depends on the President of the Council. I’d like, through public media, to ask the distinguished Representative of Argentina – how would they like it if they were refused to attend a meeting on the Falkland Islands during a conflict time, or even after?” Revaz Adamia said.

He also said that, unfortunately, it was not the first time that the Security Council has chosen “such a non-transparent way of discussing the conflict” in Abkhazia. 

“There is no progress in conflict-resolution exactly because there is no transparency in the process,” Adamia said, adding that Russia’s position is behind such tendencies.

“It is not the first time that the Russian Federation has blocked the Georgian representative from speaking at the Council meeting… And the truth is that despite officially declaring support for the territorial integrity of Georgia, Russia still backs the secessionist regime there… The truth is that restoration of territorial integrity of Georgia became only just an amusing commitment for the Russian authorities,” the Georgian Ambassador stated.