This month marks the 12 years since Russia’s full-scale military intervention into Georgia in August 2008. To this day, the Russian Federation is in clear violation of international law and continues to occupy the two Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia. Russia continues its malign activities by conventional and unconventional methods, taking steps towards factual annexation of the two regions constituting 20% of Georgian internationally recognized territories, discriminating against thousands of ethnic Georgians.
In the context of the 12th year since the August 2008 War and Russia’s ongoing acts of aggression, American friends: Government officials from Executive and Legislative Branches, Members of Think Tank Community/Academia made public statements in support of Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. #2008AugustWar #NoToOccupation:
EXECUTIVE BRANCH
– US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Philip Reeker Video
– US Embassy Tbilisi Statement
– US Mission to OSCE Tweet
– US Mission to UN Joint Statement
– USAID Assistant Administrator Brock Bierman Tweet
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
– US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Tweet
– US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee — Congressmen Engel-McCaul Statement on the 12th Anniversary of the Russia-Georgia War
– US Helsinki Commission Tweet
– US Congressman Alcee Hastings (Florida) Tweet
– US Congressman Mike Turner (Ohio) Tweet & Web-post
– US Senator Ron Johnson (Wisconsin) Tweet
– US Congressman Steve Womack (Arkansas) Tweet
– US Congressman John Katko (New York) Tweet
– US Congressman Adam Kinzinger (Illinois), Co-Chair of the Georgia Caucus at the U.S. House of Representatives Video
THINK TANKS/ACADEMIA
– Luke Coffey, Heritage Foundation Article
– Jonathan Katz, GMF Tweet
– US-Europe Alliance Tweet
– Ambassador Ian Kelly Tweet
– Alexis Mrachek, Heritage Foundation Tweet
– Ambassador John Heffern Tweet