Agenda.ge
April 1, 2022
The security, humanitarian and human rights situation in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) on the backdrop of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine were in focus of a meeting between Tea Akhvlediani, Georgia’s State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality and a group of United States officials Anne Witkowsky, the Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stablisation Operations [and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense], and Leslie Ziman, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration in the Department of State on Friday.
The Reconciliation Ministry said Akhvlediani had particularly focused on erection of barbed wire fences and other barriers along the administrative boundary marking the occupation line….
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In addition to the meeting with the US delegation, Akhvlediani took part in and addressed the audience at an event dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Georgia and the US.
In her address at the occasion, Akhvlediani stressed the role and support of the US in building Georgia’s democratic state, achieving European and Euro-Atlantic integration….
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