Abashidze: join the sanctions against the Russian Federation irrelevant for Georgia
Accession to the sanctions of the West against Russia irrelevant for Georgia, said the special representative of the Georgian Prime Minister on settlement of relations With Russia Zurab Abashidze, transfer Agency " news-Georgia ".
last week, the former ruling party of Georgia " Unified national movement ", whose leader is former President Mikhail Saakashvili called on the authorities to connect to the sanctions of the West against Russia. Join the sanctions would be a clear signal that Georgia's integration in European and Euro-Atlantic structures will remain a pipe dream, told in the party.
" The volume of our (Russian-Georgian - ed) trade relations so insignificant That, I think, this theme and the truth is not topical and relevant, " said Abashidze. He said That the Georgian authorities support the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
As for relations With Russia, according to him, " there is no soft tone "." we do not have diplomatic relations With Russia. In 2008 on the initiative of the Georgian side were broken off diplomatic relations. This is the strongest form of relationship one country to another. Between our States in practice there is no formal ties, " he said.
The US and EU do not recognize the reunification of the Crimea With Russia and accused Moscow of interfering in Ukraine. Russia denies It and called such accusations are unacceptable. Western countries Since March, has repeatedly imposed punishment on a number of Russian politicians, businessmen and organizations. Georgia broke off diplomatic relations With Russia in response to respect Moscow independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the last month of the summer of 2008.
Commissioners of the new government that came to power in elections in October 2012, was named one of the top priorities of the foreign policy of normalization of relations With Russia, but not to harm the country's territorial integrity. Since then started to establish economic relations - Georgian wine and mineral water, and other products agriculture back on the market of the Russian Federation.
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