10 years have passed since the February 2014 Kiev events, which in the latest Ukrainian mythology were romantically named “the Revolution of Dignity” - the events that later brought down the state independence and sovereignty of Ukraine.
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November 23 saw another politicized decision made by the European Parliament, which adopted the resolution on the incident, that happened on November 6, 2023 near the village of Amdzarin of the Lenigor region in the territory adjusted to the border with Georgia.
In his speech at the margins of the 147th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly held in Luanda, Angola under the thesis “Parliamentary action for peace, justice and strong institutions”, Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, touched upon the thesis of so-called occupation, having mentioned in that regards historical belonging of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to Georgia.
On October 12, the Israeli Air Force launched strikes on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, as a result of which the runways of the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo were damaged.
The statements made by the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili at the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, in which he unequivocally noted, addressing the “Abkhaz and Ossetian brothers and sisters,” that “the enemy of our unity is our common enemy,” and once again touched upon the topic of “occupation of Georgia” were not left without attention.
As it became known, on September 19, a field meeting of the Russian-Georgian Business Council established at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in February 2023, was held in Vladikavkaz.
On June 7, 2023, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution prepared by Georgia on the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees from South Ossetia and Abkhazia (document A/77/L.73). The Georgian delegate who introduced the draft resolution stated that it was “purely humanitarian” in order to “avoid any political speculation when the basic rights of displaced persons are at stake”.
On June 7, within the framework of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, a resolution initiated by Georgia on the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees from South Ossetia and Abkhazia was adopted yet again.
“The concept of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, approved today by Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been updated in the context of the current difficult situation and defines the priority directions, goals and objectives of Russia's international activities.
We are closely following the events taking place in Georgia over the past few days. It is obvious that the developing serious internal political crisis, into which this country has been driven again by its Western curators and so-called "friends", may become a threat to the stability and security of the entire Transcaucasian region.
We have paid attention to the words of Salome Zourabichvili, the President of Georgia, who stated in her interview to Bloomberg that Georgian problems connected with the ongoing claims for the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia should be should in conjunction with future peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
The International Criminal Court has completed the investigation of war crimes, committed during the full-scale military aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia in August 2008 and does not intend to commit any further investigations.