Tbilisi displeased with outcome of June 15 talks in Geneva
TBILISI. June 16 (Interfax) - The Georgian Foreign Ministry is not satisfied with the outcomes of the negotiations on stability and security in the South Caucasus held in Geneva on June 15.
"The Russian delegation and representatives of the regimes of occupation left a meeting of the second working group on refugees and displaced persons; the Georgian side saw that move as an unconstructive attitude to human rights, humanitarian issues and principles of the negotiations," the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in its statement.
Georgia firmly demanded that the Abkhazian border guard who shot and killed a local resident in the village of Khurcha in the Zugdidi district be detained and questioned in front of video cameras, it said.
"At the first working group on security and stability issues, the Georgian side called attention to poor security levels in the occupied regions, together with escalating militarization and illegal exercises held in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali district," the ministry said.
Georgia focused on the ongoing construction of artificial barriers on 'the line of occupation' and defined that activity as 'a flagrant violation of fundamental rights of local residents'.
"The Georgian side raised the question of teaching the Georgian population in Abkhazia in their native tongue," the ministry said.
The next round of Geneva talks will take place on October 4-5, 2016.