EMC calls on the Government
Tbilisi. The Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC) responds to the fact of trespassing by Russian soldiers into Georgian-controlled territory and detention of citizens, fleeing Abkhazia, near the village of Khurcha. The organization calls on the Government to enhance security measures along the occupation line and ensure proper protection of the security of the population living in surrounding villages.
“It is critically important to urge: the Government of Georgia to carry out intensive negotiations and take diplomatic actions in order to restore traffic regime with occupied regions and lift arbitrary restrictions on freedom of movement; the Government of Georgia to take additional political and diplomatic actions so as to establish a regular independent monitoring mechanism along dividing lines with the involvement of international actors; the State Security Services and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to provide constant patrolling along dividing lines and surrounding villages in order to ensure the security of population there”, - is noted in the statement released by the organization.
Source: The website of the organization
