Georgia MFA: Russia Wants to Stir Tensions through ‘Kidnappings’
Detention of a Georgian citizen in the village of Perevi is yet another “provocation by Russian occupation forces” aimed at fueling tensions in the areas adjacent to breakaway South Ossetia and keeping “local population under constant harassment,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.
“Despite numerous attempts of the international organizations and efforts of Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Thomas Hammarberg, who is currently on his visit to Georgia, to make Russia to respect norms and principles of international law, Russian occupants continue to proceed with the established by themselves dirty practice of kidnapping. It should be noted that the occupants still hold four minor citizens of Georgia captive,” it said in a statement on Monday.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia expresses its strong protest over these criminal acts committed by the Russian side that represent the gross violation of the 12 August seize-fire agreement and the universally recognized norms and principles of international law. The Georgian side demands insistently to immediately release the Georgian citizens and to stop that or those destabilizing and provocative acts from the Russian side.”
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