Tbilisi Condemns Putin’s Abkhaz Visit
Georgian Foreign Ministry said visit of Russian PM Vladimir Putin, whom it described as “the main initiator and ideologist” of the August war, to breakaway Abkhazia was “yet another provocation carried out quite in the tradition of Soviet special services.”
It also said that the timing of the visit – anniversary of the August 12 six-point ceasefire accord – was chosen deliberately by the Russian PM. It said that Putin arrived in Abkhazia in violation of Georgia’s internationally recognized border.
“Putin’s ‘visit’ to occupied Abkhazia provides further evidence that Russia continues to defy the internationally recognized norms… By taking such steps, Russia once again makes it clear that Russia was never and is not intending to comply with any of its commitments under the six-point agreement of 12 August 2008,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia expresses its strong protest over this yet another attempt to destabilize the situation and escalate the tension in the Caucasus region and calls upon the international community to make Russia… fulfill the commitments under the six-point agreement.”
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