 Strasbourg,
12.03.2012 – The monitoring co-rapporteurs
for Georgia of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Michael
Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC), made the
following statement in relation to Saturday’s elections in the breakaway region
of Abkhazia: "The
so-called parliamentary elections in Abkhazia, as well as the so-called
presidential election that will take place on 25 March 2012 in Tskhinvali,
cannot be recognised as legitimate. The unilateral declaration of independence
of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is illegitimate under
international law and therefore no legal or constitutional basis for these
elections exists."
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