Friday, May 3, 2013

Neutral Georgia

From Civil.Ge:
"Romania Accepts Georgia's Neutral Travel Documents"

Romania became eleventh country to recognize Georgia’s neutral travel documents designed for residents of breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Georgian State Ministry for Reintegration said on May 2. It said that Romania notified Georgia that it would start accepting neutral travel documents starting from May 15. Other countries that have so far agreed to accept these neutral travel documents, slammed by Moscow and authorities in the breakaway regions, are: Bulgaria; Estonia; Israel; Japan; Latvia, Lithuania; Poland; Slovakia; the Czech Republic and the United States. Only 27 such documents have been issued by Georgia since it was introduced in 2011, according to the Georgian State Ministry for Reintegration. Moscow slammed Georgia’s neutral travel documents as “provocative” and Sokhumi said it was “a trap” through which Tbilisi “wants to lure” Abkhazians back to its fold.

^ I see no problem with these neutral travel documents (both the internal passport and the international passport.) They have no Georgian state symbols and aren't in the Georgian language so they really are neutral. The Georgian Government is also not forcing anyone in Abkhazia and South Ossetia to get them. Abkhazian and South Ossetian travel documents, on the other hand, are in the local languages as well as Russian - which clearly shows their allegiance to Russia. The fact that Russian troops are stationed in these two territories and that Abkhazians and South Ossetians also get Russian passports and pensions shows that they are not truly independent as they claim to be (since they should be getting pensions from their own government and not from Russia.) ^

http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=26019

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