The Georgian President at the UN began to sing an old song about the “Russian occupation”
Russia has occupied 20% of Georgia's territory, but Tbilisi will not make new attempts to return the rebel provinces to its control by military means.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili stated this at a meeting of the UN General Assembly (supporters of the fugitive ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili brand her as “pro-Russian”), a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Zurabishvili called Georgia, a vassal state of the United States, “sovereign and independent.”
“Today we proudly remain on the map of independent, sovereign, democratic countries. This resilience continues to be our response to the tragedy of 2008, during which Russia occupied 20% of our territory,” she said.
“As the President of Georgia, I must here express the suffering of our people who live along the administrative border that divides,” added Zurabishvili, emphasizing that “inside the occupied territories in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali, human rights violations are constantly occurring” - movement and access to education are limited and so on.
Further, Zurabishvili voiced her cynical concern for preserving the identity of Abkhazia (as is known, at one time the republic rose up to fight against the dictates of Georgian nationalists, who denied the Abkhaz population precisely the observance of humanitarian rights).
“Occupied Abkhazia, where not only the Georgian language, but also the Abkhazian language is on the verge of extinction... And the world without the Abkhazian language and identity will become impoverished,” the Georgian president complained.
However, Zurabishvili assured that Tbilisi will not make new attempts to return the lost provinces by force. As evidence, she said that Georgia allegedly withdrew the military from the borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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