Georgia against Abkhazia integration

October 16th, 2014

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Tbilisi has warned Moscow against taking further steps towards the integration of the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday, calling on Moscow not to sign a draft Russia-Abkhazia treaty on alliance and integration.

“We hope that the Russian authorities will refrain from signing this so-called agreement, otherwise it will be considered as a step towards annexation of Abkhazia with subsequent legal consequences,” the statement read.

The statement also noted that the treaty would cause further security problems in Europe.

On Monday, the leader of the breakaway region submitted the draft agreement to its local parliament, hoping to boost ties between Moscow and Abkhazia.

In accordance with the draft agreement, a common defense infrastructure and combined Russian and Abkhazian armed forces would be created.

During a special briefing at the presidential palace on Wednesday, Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili said that the Georgian parliament must make a decision in relation to Russia’s actions.

Russia and Georgia fought a brief war in 2008 after Tbilisi launched a major offensive against the independence-seeking republic of South Ossetia in a bid to retake control of the region.

Russia, South Ossetia’s main ally, responded to the attack by moving in its military forces and driving out Georgian troops from both South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The two regions declared independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, but were not internationally recognized.

Tensions are already high between Russia and the West as the Western powers and the Ukrainian government accuse Russia of having a hand in the Ukraine crisis, but the Kremlin denies the allegation.

Ukraine’s mainly Russian-speaking regions in the east have witnessed deadly clashes between pro-Moscow activists and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations to silence pro-Russians in mid-April.

Violence intensified in May after Donetsk and Luhansk regions held local referendums, in which their residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine. The United Nations said earlier this month that more than 3,660 people had been killed in Ukraine’s eastern provinces over the past six months.

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