Tbilisi
For ten years that it has been in power, the Georgian Dream party of the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili has followed a “policy of caution” vis-à-vis its big Russian neighbour.
“
Saakashvili
(President of Georgia from 2004 to 2013)
was confrontational and even provocative, which led to the 2008 war and Moscow's recognition of our secessionist regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
20% of our territory.
We couldn't go on like this
, ”says majority MP Giorgi Khelasvili.
Despite this approach, nothing has been achieved by Tbilisi on the essential, its territorial integrity.
“
Worse, despite gestures of goodwill, Moscow has accelerated the process of physical demarcation of the administrative boundary with South Ossetia
,” underlines Olessya Vartanian, of the International Crisis Group.
More than 80 km of barbed wire have been laid in ten years around the secessionist region (out of the 390 km of this administrative limit).
Besides this demarcation…
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