Armenia aims to meet 30 percent of its military-technical needs through local production, the Secretary of the country’s Security Council, Armen Grigoryan, said at the II World Armenian Summit, Report informs via Armenian media.
Day: September 18, 2024
On September 17, the de-facto Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the occupied Tskhinvali region issued a statement regarding the Georgian Dream honorary chair Bidzina Ivanishvili’s broaching Georgia’s apology to “Ossetian sisters and brothers” for the August 2008 war, saying that the message should be viewed in the context of Georgia’s pre-election campaign and that Tskhinvali expects the subsequent “practical measures” in the future.
The statement says: “We expect that this real step, attesting to the sincerity of the good intentions voiced by Ivanishvili, will soon result in a legally binding document of Georgia’s refusal to use or threaten to use force against the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia,” the statement of the de-facto agency says.
“In the period preceding the parliamentary elections in Georgia, the topic of Georgian-Ossetian relations will be used, one way or another, in the internal political pre-election struggle. However, the prospect of establishing relations cannot depend on the political situation in Georgia at a certain point in time,” the statement notes.
The statement concludes that the political vector of the occupation regime is conditioned by the need to “comprehensively strengthen allied and integration ties with the Russian Federation, which is the guarantor of peace and security in the region and on whose territory the majority of the divided Ossetian people reside”.
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On September 18, the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia refused to grant critical Azerbaijani journalist Afgan Sadigov, editor-in-chief of Azel.tv international asylum, Sadigov’s lawyer confirmed to Civil.ge.
According to Dimitri Nozadze, Sadigov’s lawyer and representative of the NGO “Rights Georgia”, Sadigov received the denial document in his cell in the Azerbaijani language. The Georgian version of the document hasn’t been sent yet, so the details of the denial are unknown. Nozadze told RFE/RL’s Georgian Service that they plan to appeal to the court once they receive the document.
Afgan Sadigov was arrested in Tbilisi on August 3. The MIA reported plans to extradite the journalist to the Azerbaijani government. The journalist was sentenced to three months’ pre-extradition detention on August 4 by Judge Ketevan Jachvadze of the Tbilisi City Court.
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