RA MFA: the reports of various European structures are not objective information, but merely repeated position of the Georgian side

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia.

Sukhum. November 19. Apsnypress. On November 16 the Council of European Committee of Deputy Ministers discussed the 14th consolidated report on the conflict in Georgia, which was prepared by its Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland.
 
 Traditionally, the report notes the commitment of the Council of Europe to Georgia's territorial integrity, and inter-state relations between the Republic of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation are characterized as "occupation" of Abkhazia by Russia. A significant part of the report is devoted to the discussion of the situation of human rights in the Republic of Abkhazia.
 
 Taking into account the existence of biased and unfair assessments of the situation in the Republic of Abkhazia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia states the following.
 
 Over the past two decades, since the victorious end of the War of Abkhazia in 1992-1993, which resulted the Georgian occupation troops suffered heavy losses and were forced to flee, the various European institutions such as the Council of Europe, continued punctually publish "expert" reports that in a very negative way assess the situation in the Republic of Abkhazia. It is characteristic that in the preparation of such reports, none of the European "experts" did not come to the Republic of Abkhazia to study the situation on the spot and receive objective information.
 
 Unfortunately, it became tradition to publish divorced from the reality reports, which do not bear any objective information, but merely repeated position of the Georgian side.
 
 The result of these provocative actions of official European institutions in relation to the Republic of Abkhazia became a significant increase of disbelief of the Abkhaz society to any EU initiatives.
 
 Based on the foregoing, the Abkhaz side intends to raise this issue during the forthcoming visit of Co-Chairs of the Geneva discussions, and to give an adequate assessment of such extremely negative thrusts of European structures towards our country.