Georgian state secretary: Drawing parallels between Kosovo and conflicts in South Caucasus is ungrounded

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“Drawing parallels between Kosovo and conflicts in South Caucasus has no objective grounds,” said Georgian State Secretary for Conflict Settlement David Bakradze today. According to him, representatives of the USA and the EU reiterated that Kosovo is a unique case and the proposed mechanism cannot be universal.

According to Bakradze, “the difference between Kosovo and Abkhazia is evident.” “The international community became engaged in Kosovo to protect victims of ethnic purges; in this certain case, these are, first of all, people living in the territory. In Abkhazia, victims of ethnic purges are not those people living there today, but those who were forced out as a result of the conflict, [it is] the Georgian population,” Bakradze stressed.

“Any parallel, both from legal or political point of view, stands no criticism. I repeat, political manipulations are dangerous, for which such comparison can drawn,” the state secretary announced.

He also noted that “the democratic community of the West has an unambiguous position: it is inadmissible and incorrect to try to manipulate the Kosovo case.”