Zurab Abashidze: Improving Relations is a Two-Way Street
... in Ukraine, Georgia unequivocally supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and endeavours to provide the necessary aid to our close neighbours. Has the Ukrainian crisis altered the perception of the situation in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia? Some people have changed their opinion, some have adopted even stronger stances. On the whole, the dramatic events that have unfolded in Ukraine are reminiscent of what happened in Georgia in 2008 and earlier in the 1990s. In early summer 2015, the Georgian authorities detained a cousin of an ISIS leader as part of a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge. As you know, political Islam ...