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The resolution concerning, inter alia, “the situation of security and human rights in Abkhazia” was adopted during the annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Luxembourg.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia drew the attention to the incident that occurred in the Georgian parliament during a meeting of the 26-th session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy. The session was attended by the delegations of the legislative bodies of 25 member countries of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy(I.A.O.).
Speaking in Tbilisi on the occasion of Georgia’s national holiday - Independence Day, Salome Zurabishvili, the Georgian President expressed regret that the Abkhaz language “is on the verge of extinction, despite the care of the Georgian state. According to Zurabishvili, this is due to the fact that Russia "pursues a policy of Russification towards the Abkhaz people, the Abkhaz culture and language."
Lilianne Mori Pasquier, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), in an interview with the Georgian media, said of the “alarming facts coming in” related to the situation “in the occupied territories of Georgia”.
Georgian officials made a number of statements in connection with the trainings of the united group of troops (forces) of Russia and Abkhazia taking place in the Republic of Abkhazia.
In the information space there has never been a lack of tendentious publications devoted to Abkhazia. The existing reality is fed into them exclusively in dark colors and extremely subjective. Often the source of such publications are Georgian or sympathetic information resources. But often they appear on neutral Internet resources.
Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General who arrived in Tbilisi to familiarize himself with the course of the command and staff exercises of Georgia and NATO, made a number of statements urging Russia to withdraw recognition of Abkhazia’s independence, stressing the North Atlantic Alliance’s sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia.
The National Security and Defense of the Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions on the legal entities and individuals including a number of citizens of the Republic of Abkhazia on March 20,2019 who participated as the observers at elections in the Donbas.
The Foreign Ministry of Abkhazia drew attention to the provocative statement of the official Washington which was made in connection with the latest events in Venezuela.
The Foreign Ministry of Abkhazia drew attention to the statement by D. Zalkaliani, the Georgian Foreign Minister in which he calls on Russia and the “occupation regimes” to open checkpoints on the river Ingur. “Closing checkpoints” poses a serious threat to such a fundamental right as the free movement of people according to Zalkaliani. The head of the Georgian foreign ministry did not spread the reason for the temporary closure of the state border.