Parliament official: Russia establishes “apartheid regime” in Georgia’s occupied regions

The head of the committee highlighted Georgia's assistance to Ukraine, including the sharing of experience, in order for Ukraine to succeed in its disputes with Russia in the international criminal courts, and pointed out that Ukraine had filed a lawsuit in the ICC against Russia with the help of Georgia. Photo: Parliament of Georgia

Agenda.ge, 26 Nov 2022 - 16:48, Tbilisi,Georgia

Russia has established an “apartheid regime” in Georgia’s occupied regions, where ethnic discrimination of Georgians continues, Nikoloz Samkharadze, the head of the Georgian delegation to the OSCE parliamentary assembly and the chair of the parliament's foreign relations committee said on Saturday at the assembly’s autumn meeting in Warsaw.

Samkharadze noted that the facts of discrimination had been confirmed by the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court, and Georgia had won the dispute against Russia, according to which Russian citizens were found guilty of committing war crimes, the press service of parliament said.

In his address, Samkharadze condemned Russia's bombing of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, including energy facilities and stressed it aimed to create a “humanitarian disaster” in the country, adding it had been “very similar” to the scenario created by Russia in Georgia’s occupied territories, where up to 250,000 ethnic Georgians were not allowed to return to their homes and children were unable to receive education in the Georgian language, with the aim of erasing the traces of ethnicity in the regions.

The head of the committee highlighted Georgia's assistance to Ukraine, including the sharing of experience, in order for Ukraine to succeed in its disputes with Russia in the international criminal courts, and pointed out that Ukraine had filed a lawsuit in the ICC against Russia with the help of Georgia.