From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/29/2007 5:02 AM Sukhumi demands from Tbilisi returning stolen cultural treasures 28.5.2007
The authorities of unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia demanded form Georgia returning of the cultural treasures stolen during the armed conflict of 1992-1993.
In the widespread on Friday (25.05.07) statement of the Ministry of foreign affairs of the unrecognized republic it was written about "responsibility of the authorities of Georgia for the cultural genocide, committed during the Georgian occupation of the part of territories of Abkhazia in 1992-1993".
"Georgian armies grasping Sukhumi burnt the Abkhazian state archive and historical language and literature research institute. In those scientific institutions there were the most valuable items of information about the history and the culture of Abkhazia. As a result of that crime a significant part of the most valuable materials, testifying about the ancient history of Abkhazia was destroyed", - it was stated in the document.
"During the war Georgian authorities purposefully destroyed monuments of the known Abkhazian public figures, scientists, and in the occupied areas they attempted to destroy the Abkhazian Christian relics, including the orthodox temple in Bedia village, having a centuries-old history", - it was underlined in the document.
Abkhazian ministry of foreign affairs denied the statement of the president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili about the Georgian study books ostensibly burnt in Gagry town. "These statements do not correspond to the validity and strengthen enmity and intolerance between the peoples of Georgia and Abkhazia", - it was remarked in the statement.
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