Khidasheli: on the eve of elections Georgian authorities stir up the situation in Abkhazia

Tina Khidasheli, one of the leaders of the oppositional Republican Party of Georgia, asserts that nothing special is taking place in Abkhazia today, and the situation is deliberately stirred up by Georgian authorities before the elections.

"Here, always before elections within the recent decade the authorities have drawn the picture of apocalypse, together with controlled media they deliberately stir up the situation.

Yes, in Abkhazia, the situation was never calm, but there is nothing special there now. As to, say, the statement of the Russian State Duma, they have always been made. But it has no crucial importance for Georgia. What we have here is really important. While we keep thinking only of what they decide in Moscow, we shall stay in vassal dependence," Ms Khidasheli said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"And the recent Mikhail Saakashvili's address to Ossetian and Abkhazians is the most shameful that I've ever heard. He promised defence of the property right and many other things that he had himself broken many times during his presidency. How can Abkhazians trust him?" Tina Khidasheli asked.

She has also added that should Saakashvili had apologized before the refugees when he regained his power, it would have meant a gesture of his readiness for other policy towards refugees, but nothing of the sort has happened.