Describing local elections in breakaway Abkhazia as democratic is “cynical and immoral,” Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said on February 15.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on February 14 that elections held in Abkhazia on February 11 “mainly corresponded to international electoral and democratic norms.”
“Frankly, this assessment by the Russian side did not come as any kind of surprise to me… Maybe you remember my earlier statements about our moral incompatibility with the Russian authorities. What I meant then is that it is totally inadmissible and cynical to describe as democratic the regime that through ethnic cleansing forced the local population of over 300 thousand Georgians, Ukrainians, Estonians, Greeks and Russians to leave their homes and denied them the right to native language instruction,” Foreign Minister Bezhuashvili said at a news conference.
“On what democratic principles or tendencies can they speak after this? This is my reply to the Russian Foreign Ministry,” he added.
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