Georgian President Meets OSCE Ambassadors

Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili hosted the 25 member delegation of OSCE Permanent Representatives who are paying an official visit to Georgia.

The meeting was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Vakhtang Makharoblishvili, the President’s International Secretary, Tengiz Pkhaladze, and Ana Natsvlishvili, Parliamentary Secretary.

The sides discussed the importance of OSCE support for Georgia and ongoing democratic processes in Georgia.

Special attention was paid to security problems and the situation in the occupied territories. The ambassadors were provided with information related to kidnapping, torture, human rights violations and other problems in the occupied territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The conversation touched on the specific steps that will activate the international organizations and especially the OSCE role in the security context in the region.

The President emphasized that the occupied territories of Georgia should not be left beyond monitoring.

Margvelashvili provided the Ambassadors with the detailed information about the policy carried out by the Russian Federation in the region and he thanked thanked the delegation for supporting territorial integrity and sovereignty and non-recognition policy.

A group of OSCE Ambassadors arrived in Georgia on June 19.

By Thea Morrison

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