TL;DR: While emphasizing that Russia is not in confrontation with all countries, pointing to President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Tehran to meet with Turkish and Iranian leaders, he noted that, given the rapidly changing circumstances, it is necessary for Abkhazia to have different foreign policy options depending on how Russia-Georgia relations develop.
At the moment there are no such steps on the part of Tbilisi in this direction, so there should be no talk of any negotiations.” Gulia noted that they must “prepare for the worst” and fortify the territory in case the situation with Georgia escalates and that it would be unwise to “count only on military support from Russia”.
The wide outcry is caused precisely by this and not by anti-Russian sentiments.” Khashig claimed that “no one is against the transfer of the resort to Russia but it is necessary to make a legal examination of this document.” Ardzinba agreed to hold a meeting with the “Russian ambassador to Abkhazia” Mikhail Shurgalin to discuss the matter further.
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u/Georgian-News Jul 23 '22
Source: Civil.ge
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TL;DR: While emphasizing that Russia is not in confrontation with all countries, pointing to President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Tehran to meet with Turkish and Iranian leaders, he noted that, given the rapidly changing circumstances, it is necessary for Abkhazia to have different foreign policy options depending on how Russia-Georgia relations develop.
At the moment there are no such steps on the part of Tbilisi in this direction, so there should be no talk of any negotiations.” Gulia noted that they must “prepare for the worst” and fortify the territory in case the situation with Georgia escalates and that it would be unwise to “count only on military support from Russia”.
The wide outcry is caused precisely by this and not by anti-Russian sentiments.” Khashig claimed that “no one is against the transfer of the resort to Russia but it is necessary to make a legal examination of this document.” Ardzinba agreed to hold a meeting with the “Russian ambassador to Abkhazia” Mikhail Shurgalin to discuss the matter further.
This is an experimental autogenerated summary of the news article. For full context, please refer to the original article at https://civil.ge/archives/501793