On February 3, 2023, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, Inal Ardzinba, held a meeting with colleagues on the organization of the Global Abkhazia forum dedicated to the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia continues to monitor the situation in Ukraine. We regard the execution of Russian prisoners of war yet another provocation by Ukraine aimed at aggravating the situation in the region.

Joint statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia Inal Ardzinba and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic Faisal Mekdad.

We are closely following the development of the situation on the line of contact in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, where over the past few days there has been a sharp escalation of tension.

On July 24, 2022, terrorist groups launched a rocket attack on the Hagia Sophia church in the city of al-Sqalbiya in Syria, where a festive opening ceremony was taking place. Two people became victims of the attack, there is information about 12 victims.

As a result of the armed aggression of Georgia in 2008, the Georgian authorities began to actively use the thesis of "occupied territories" in all international forums and in the international media space. According to the thesis the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia were declared territories allegedly occupied by the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia is extremely concerned about the growing tension around the Transnistrian Moldavian Republic.

As a result of the 2014 coup d'état, radicals of the Western project "anti-Russia" came to power in Ukraine. A significant part of the Russian-speaking residents of the south-east of Ukraine did not fit into their ideology. For eight years, the civilian population of the southeast has become the object of armed aggression by the Ukrainian security forces and nationalist groups. They launched rocket and bomb strikes aimed at civilian targets.

Commentary of Irakli Tuzhba, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia

We welcome and consider lawful the decision of the President of the Russian Federation to recognize the state sovereignty and independence of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic.