STATEMENT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF
To His Excellency, the
President of the Russian Federation Mr Boris Yeltsin
To the participants of
To His Excellency, Head of
OSCE
To His Excellency,
Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary Ambassador of the
To His Excellency, Head of the
UN Mission in
To His Excellency, Commander
of the Peace-Keeping Forces of the
The situation has been
acerbated again in the Georgina-Abkhaz conflict zone that is a consequence of
policy carried out by the Abkhaz side aimed at protracting the negotiations and
putting the bar to
the return of thousands of refugees to their own dwellings.
The Abkhaz side linked the
return of refugees to the withdrawal of Georgian military formations from Kodori Gorge. Though
these two issues, according to the signed agreement, have no links with each
other, the Georgian side made a compromise and carried out inspection in Kodori Gorge thereby confirming that the Georgian side was
observing the commitments pledged in the course of bilateral negotiations.
Despite the widely applied
International practice, the representatives of Abkhaz separatists have accepted
as few applications from refugees that practically it was demonstration of
frustrating the process of peaceful return of refugees.
In addition, the separatists
resort to provocations to impede the peaceful settlement of the conflict. On September 17 of the current year the
Abkhaz pirates kidnapped fishing boat and a barge of Poti. The people who were on the board are
released, including two servicemen of Russian Army, but the fate of 9 Georgian
members of a crew is still unknown.
Despite the obligations on
security guarantees, the Abkhaz side constantly breeds the atmosphere of threat
and terror aimed at disrupting the process of return of refugees, especially
through punitive expeditions in Gali district. Assassinations, raping and robbing are often
applied there. Georgian population is
persecuted and mining of country-roads is still in practice. Under the pretext of anti-crime activity, on behalf
of so called ‘Abkhaz Police’ the Abkhaz boeviks burnt
down more than 100 houses and unlawfully arrested innocent citizens in the
villages of Nabakevi and Otobaia. These operations were led by the minister of
Interior of the separatist power. It should
be mentioned that all of the aforementioned facts have been reported in the
‘security zone’, which is under the control of the peacekeepers of the
The Parliament of Georgia will
never reconcile with separation of Abkhazia from the state of
(Bulletin of the Parliament of Georgia, 1994, # # 21-22, p.
353-354)