Georgia raps Russian move to forge ties with breakaway regions
TBILISI, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — Russia acted in “brutal breach” of international law in establishing diplomatic ties with two breakaway regions of Georgia, Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili said on Tuesday.
Two weeks after recognizing the two regions — South Ossetia and Abkhazia — as independent states, Moscow signed deals on Tuesday to forge formal diplomatic relations with them.
The move is “a brutal breach of existing international law,” Tkeshelashvili said, according to the Caucasus Press news agency.
“This latest Russian action is no different from its prior move to recognize the independence of the two breakaway regions,” she said.
Tkeshelashvili’s criticism of Russia came on the same day President Mikheil Saakashvili said any solution to the conflict with Russia must respect Georgia’s territorial integrity.
“There is no way Georgia will ever give up a piece of its sovereignty, a piece of its territory,” he told a news conference in the early hours of Tuesday after talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who arrived here with an updated cease-fire deal.
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