Tbilisi responds Moscow’s calls for ‘delimitation of borders’ with de facto regions

The Georgian Foreign Ministry and Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has responded to the Russian Foreign Ministry’s yesterday’s calls for Tbilisi to ‘delimitate borders and then demarcate’ with the country’s currently Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions. 

 

Russia recognised the two Georgian regions as independent states after the Russia-Georgia 2008 war, while the international community say that the regions are historic parts of Georgia and Russia must withdraw its forces. 

 

The Georgian Foreign Ministry says that Moscow’s recent statement is ‘completely unacceptable,’ stating  that ‘the only solution to the issue is ending the occupation of Georgian territories by Russia.’ 

 

Garibashvili said that like with Azerbaijan and Armenia, Georgia has not completed the border demarcation with Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

 

He said that the delimitation of the border with Russia will take place ‘by united Georgia.’