Tbilisi will never recognize the parliamentary elections in Abkhazia as legitimate in any form, Georgian parliamentary speaker Irakli Kobakhidze said that.
“The so-called elections held in Abkhazia run counter to the norms and principles of international law. In view of this, we cannot give them any legal assessment,” Kobakhidze told journalists on March 13.
The only assessment that can be made is that “under no circumstances shall we consider these elections legitimate, whatever their form,” he said.
A day earlier, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said the parliamentary elections in Abkhazia were illegitimate.
The elections in Abkhazia “have no legal force and will have no legal consequences,” the Georgian presidential administration said in a statement.
Earlier on March 12, the Georgian Foreign Ministry described the parliamentary elections in Abkhazia as illegitimate and urged the international community to assess this process accordingly.
