Georgian Foreign Ministry urges int'l community to continue non-recognition policy toward Abkhazia

The Georgian Foreign Ministry urged the international community to continue its policy of "non-recognition towards separatist regions." The Aug. 26 elections of the so-called Abkhazian president are illegitimate, the Georgian Foreign Ministry’s statement says.

"No decision on the future of Abkhazia can be legitimate as long as approximately half a million displaced persons, three-fourths of the region’s population, are deprived of the right to participate in decision-making. Crimes committed by occupants and their puppet regime have fundamentally distorted the demographics of Abkhazia, Georgia, thus preventing IDP's and refugees of Georgian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Greek, Azerbaijani, Estonian and other ethnic origins to return to their native homes. Moreover, the remaining residents’ human rights are being violated daily by the occupying regime; international observers are not allowed into the occupied region to report these abuses or the ongoing illegal militarization," the statement states.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry appeals to all members of the international community to give an adequate assessment to another farce conducted in Abkhazia as one of the occupied regions of Georgia, and steadily continue the policy of non-recognition.

Aleksandr Ankvab won the presidential elections held early in Abkhazia on Aug. 26, winning 54.9 percent of the votes.


/Trend/