Georgian Patriarch sends condolences to family of Sergei Bagapsh

Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilya II expressed his condolences to the family of the deceased President of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, RIA Novosti reports, with reference to the press service of the Patriarchate.

Bagapsh died on May 29 in Moscow after complicated lung surgery. On June 2 his funeral was held in Abkhazia.

The Georgian opposition parties “New Right" and "Free Georgia" and the international secretary of the Georgian Labor Party, Professor Nestan Kirtadze, previously expressed their condolences to the family of Bagapsh and the Abkhaz people.