Tbilisi officials have decried as "immoral and dangerous" Russia's decision to withdraw from a CIS treaty imposing sanctions on Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on March 6 announcing the country's withdrawal from the 1996 treaty, citing "changed circumstances."
The treaty, which bans trade, economic, financial, transport, and other links with Abkhazia, was signed by 12 members of the CIS.
"When they [Russia] are saying they are stopping [the] economic embargo [against] Abkhazia, it means that they are going, step by step, in the direction of the annexation of this territory. This is nothing if not an attempt of annexation," Nino Burjanadze, Georgian parliament speaker said on March 7.
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on March 6 announcing the country's withdrawal from the 1996 treaty, citing "changed circumstances."
The treaty, which bans trade, economic, financial, transport, and other links with Abkhazia, was signed by 12 members of the CIS.
"When they [Russia] are saying they are stopping [the] economic embargo [against] Abkhazia, it means that they are going, step by step, in the direction of the annexation of this territory. This is nothing if not an attempt of annexation," Nino Burjanadze, Georgian parliament speaker said on March 7.
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