US Embassy releases a statement on upcoming 10th anniversary of Russia-Georgia war
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The US Embassy to Georgia has released a statement over the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
Next week marks 10 years since Russia’s armed forces poured across international border with Georgia, attempting to change those borders by force,” the embassy says.
The US embassy says that several thousand Russian forces moved into the city of Gori [east Georgia] and other areas far from the conflict zone, such as Georgia’s main port of Poti [west Georgia], far from the main area fighting.
Russia also seized the last Georgian-held portion of Abkhazia, where there had been no fighting.
Russia’s assault on Georgia had begun as its army crossed an internationally recognized boundary in an attempt to change by force the borders of another country,” reads the statement.
The embassy stated that Russia still occupies Georgian territory and called on the country to withdraw its forces to pre-war positions, as it agreed in 2008.
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When the clock strikes midnight tonight, Georgia will mark the eighth anniversary of Russia’s aggression and occupation of Georgian territory, as a sovereign, independent state.
Georgia strongly condemns the recent ratification of an agreement between Russia and Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region to establish and mark the state border around the occupied territory.
Georgia’s Justice Minister made a special statement today, and welcomed the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s decision to authorise an investigation into possible war crimes committed during a conflict between Russia and Georgia in 2008.
The International Criminal Court made this decision after examining the prosecutor’s request and supporting material, including representations by or on behalf of 6,335 victims of the conflict. It will be the ICC's first investigation into a conflict outside Africa.
High ranking guests from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine will visit Georgia on August 6-7 to mark the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
"Lithuania stands by Georgia”, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius said in Georgian in his video address released today that was devoted to 10 years since the Georgian-Russian war.
Several high-ranking guests from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine will arrive in Georgia today to participate in events dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war. Foreign Ministers of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, vice prime ministers of Ukraine and Estonia will visit Khurvaleti village tomorrow, at the occupation line between Georgia and its occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
Top Georgian officials, the foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine have commemorated the Russia-Georgia 2008 war on its 10th anniversary and spoke about the fatal consequences of the short but violent war.
The European Union wrote in its official statement today that on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war, the union remains committed to a peaceful resolution of conflict as strongly as ever.
The Friends of Georgia Group in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has initiated a video on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war.
The US Embassy to Georgia says in its statement on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war that Georgians displaced by the war have never been able to return to their homes, and residents of the occupied territories have been cut off from the country’s remarkable economic and political progress of the past decade.
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria say that based on Russian and breakaway Abkhaz sources around 15,000 Georgians have been illegally detained by Russia-controlled so-called border guards for ‘illegally crossing the border’ between 2009 and 2017.
Minister of Defense Levan Izoria with the Chief of Staff General-Mayor Vladimer Chachibaia has paid tribute to soldiers who died in the battle of Shindisi during the Russia-Georgia war in 2008.
The only political message of the Georgian government regarding the occupied territories is peace, Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze said today before the cabinet meeting.
The European Union delegation to the Council of Europe (CoE) has issued a statement agreed upon with the EU heads of the mission to the CoE, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia 2008 war and condemns Russian aggression in Georgia.
Eleven years have passed since the most tragic day in the recent history of Georgia – the beginning of the five-day war between Russia and Georgia in 2008. Today the Georgian Foreign Ministry issued a statement regarding the date, saying that 11 years on from the war, Russia still continues its occupation and practical annexation of two Georgian regions, Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia).