A Georgian parliamentary initiative will see the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s annual report include a call for Syria’s new government to revoke its recognition of breakaway regions in Georgia and Ukraine.

The amendment, proposed by MP Nikoloz Samkharadze, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and head of Georgia’s permanent delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, calls on Syria to withdraw recognition of the so-called independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia, as well as Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine.

The entry calls on Syria’s new authorities to respect and recognise the territorial integrity of both Georgia and Ukraine.

“It is extremely important that the report includes an entry about Syria, which violates the territorial integrity of two OSCE Parliamentary Assembly member states – Georgia and Ukraine – and that we call on Syria’s new government to revoke the recognition of the ‘independence’ of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as Donetsk and Luhansk, to respect and recognise the territorial integrity of Georgia and Ukraine,” Samkharadze said.