Georgia Praised at the 43rd session of Human Rights Council

Sympathetic testimonials were made towards Georgia by the country’s friends and allies, including the European Union, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, France, Great Britain and Greece at the 43rd session of Human Rights Council in Geneva.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry (MFA) stated the delegations acknowledged Georgia’s close collaboration with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights as well as the improvements made in the country in the diplomatic area.

The MFA stated that the aforementioned nations conveyed serious concerns over the ‘dreadful humanitarian and human rights situation in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali regions of Georgia’ in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. To be precise, the deputations denounced the continuation of the ‘borderization’ process, which entails the erection of wire and artificial barricades along the occupation line.

Attention was also brought to the constraints enforced on ‘freedom of movement amid the pandemic’ including some grim instances where the occupational regime rejected an emergency medical evacuation of citizens.

As the MFA’s issued statement reads, the spokesmen called on the Russian Federation to abide by the international law and to further provide unconditional access to the human rights bodies in occupied regions of Georgia.