Tbilisi Condemns Moscow’s “Interference” in Abkhazia

The Georgian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned late on November 12 the Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement warning that Moscow might take measures in order to protect its interests in Abkhazia. Below is the text of a statement:

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia expresses its strongest protest and emotion in relation with the declaration made by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs according to which the Russian Federation would be obliged to resort to any means in case of a deterioration of the situation in Abkhazia in order to protect its own interests.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia considers as inadmissible that the Russian Federation, in particular in its capacity of member of the Group of Friends of the [UN] Secretary General makes such declarations and thus interferes in the internal affairs of the sovereign state of Georgia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia categorically condemns this Russian intention and calls upon the Russian Federation to abstain from interfering into current events taking place in an Autonomous Republic of a neighboring sovereign state.

The Ministry of Foreign affairs of Georgia calls upon the Group of Friends and the international community to give the proper reaction to such Russian declarations, to reiterate their support to Georgia’s full sovereignty and territorial integrity and to warn Russia to abstain from any interference in Georgia’s internal affairs.”

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