SUKHUM. May 6 (Interfax) - It will be possible to restore trusting relations between Tbilisi and Sukhum only after the signing of the agreement on the non-use of force, Abkhazian Foreign Minister Daur Kove said.
"Georgia's specific steps towards the signing of the agreement on the non-use of force, rather than loud statements, are an important and serious step towards an improvement of the situation. Only after that, one could speak about the possibility of restoring trust between the two nations," Kove said on his Facebook page on Wednesday, responding to a statement of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) President Liliane Maury Pasquier, who said, while visiting Tbilisi recently, that "the occupied Abkhazia" is "an integral part of Georgia."
The use of the word "occupation" regarding Abkhazia by Georgian representatives and their Western partners is absurd, Kove said.
"Russian troops are in Abkhazia on the basis of a relevant treaty signed between Russia and Abkhazia," the foreign minister said.
"Ms. Liliane Maury Pasquier is fantasizing and is reluctant to take new realities in the South Caucasus into consideration," Kove said.
At the same time, "such political rhetoric of Georgia's Western partners became a routine and is not surprising," he said.