Georgian Foreign Minister makes statement on Russian President's initiative

The Georgian Foreign Minister has made a statement on a series of agreements concerning Russia's military bases in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Georgia's former territories, submitted yesterday by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the Duma for ratification, Trend has recently reported.

"This act - which Russia has taken on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale military aggression against Georgia - is yet another cynical step by which Russia demonstrates its lack of respect for universally-recognized norms and principles of international law, for its obligations according to the terms of the Ceasefire Agreement of 12 August 2011, and for the international community's consolidated stance regarding the inviolability of Georgia's internationally-recognized sovereign borders, the ethnic cleansing which has taken place in its occupied territories and the need to de-occupy these very territories," the statement says.