“Russia must know where its borders are.” The President of Georgia included in the agreement on the results of the war in Ukraine the withdrawal of Russian troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia
In the future peace treaty, which will be concluded following the war in Ukraine, it is necessary to include a clause on the withdrawal of Russian forces from Abkhazia and South Ossetia. With such a president and President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili in a conversation with Bloomberg.
“Russia needs to know where its borders are. Georgia’s issues should also be taken into account, and one should not think that this war can end without Russia retreating with all the occupied consequences,” Zurabishvili said.
According to Zurabishvili, in the case of the West, “it will make another big mistake – how.”
The President of Georgia is also firmly convinced that Russia “already practically includes part, if not all, of the war.”
Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared their independence in the early 1990s of the last century of the collapse of the USSR; since then, Georgia has not actually controlled these territories.
In 2008, following a five-day war between Georgia and Russia, Moscow officially recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed states. The world community did not agree with this – since then only four UN member states have recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Georgia is officially Abkhazia and South Ossetia occupied territories of Russia. The authorities of the Russian Federation do not publicly declare their intention to include the regions in their composition. De facto, they are under the complete control of Moscow.