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On April 19, 2017, the Committee of the Deputy Ministers of the Council of Europe considered the 15th consolidated report on the "conflict in Georgia" prepared by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjørn Jagland, in which serious human rights violations are noted in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Recently, the "angry" statements of Georgian officials – starting from officials of the Georgian Foreign Ministry to the President - in connection with the upcoming working visit of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to the Republic of Abkhazia have increased. It was said about the "illegality" of the Russian Foreign Ministry's visit to Abkhazia and, of course, about the "territorial integrity of Georgia".
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia received with deep concern the missile strikes on government forces of the Syrian Arab Republic inflicted by the US on the night of April 7.
On March 12, the Georgian Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning the past elections to the Parliament of the Republic of Abkhazia.
On March 6, the US State Department's press service issued a statement expressing "deep concern" about the closure of two checkpoints on the state border of the Republic of Abkhazia across the Ingur River.
On February 28 the NATO spokesman O. Lungesku made a statement in which she called on the authorities of Abkhazia not to close the crossing points on the state border with Georgia.
On February 25, the press service of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini issued a statement expressing "concern" about the planned closure of the two crossing points Bgoura (Otobaya) and Bataiguara (Nabakevi) at the state border on the Ingur River.
The Foreign Ministry of Abkhazia was amazed to learn the statement by the Special Representative of the Prime Minister of Georgia for relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze, which he made in an interview with the Tbilisi TV company "Starvision". Mr. Z. Abashidze expressed his "conviction" that Russia will sooner or later withdraw recognition of Abkhazia's independence.
We noticed the statement of the Georgian President G. Margvelashvili, which states that the Georgian law enforcement agencies have stopped the import of radioactive materials from the territory of Abkhazia.