No more Vessels to Abkhazia?

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Today.Az » Georgia » International Maritime Organization sends note to Georgian Foreign Ministry

03 April 2010 [11:08] - Today.Az

According to the Foreign Ministry of Georgia, the International Maritime Organization to the Note, sent on March 5.

"The Organization has officially notified the member states of the illegality of shipping in the territorial sea of Abkhazia, Georgia without the consent of the Georgian authorities and of possible sanctions from the Georgian side in case of such illegal shipping," the statement says.

The Note sent in March concerned the inadmissibility of shipping of foreign vessels in the Territorial waters on the segment of Abkhazia.

"The Note indicates that Abkhazia is an integral part of Georgia, whichh is presently occupied by the Russian Federation," the Ministry explains. "Territorial integrity of Georgia is recognized by the international community and therefore, any attempt of illegal shipping to Abkhazia, Georgia is considered as a breach of the basic norms and principles of international law", it adds.

The Note also makes a reference to the domestic legislation of Georgia, in particular, it emphasizes that in compliance with the Georgian Constitution, Georgian higher state bodies have the exclusive competence to administer the status and protection of territorial waters. Besides, pursuant to the Law of Georgia on the Maritime Space of Georgia, the outer limit of Georgian territorial sea is the State Border of Georgia and therefore, any vessel crossing or attempting to cross the state border of Georgia without passing through the border checkpoint shall be considered as a violator of the state border of Georgia and shall be subject to respective sanctions.






Thats an Dialog i made today.

Reality:

I: Hello Timur, blessed eastern and where is the ship? does it still come this week?, please send me E mail communication from freight-carrier to my account.
Timur: Blessed eastern, it is right now in front of Varna and will be in about four days on our coast.
I: Send me please the correspondence between the Turks and you.
Timur: OK, how much you have sent?
I: The customers should get three packages with good products from Switzerland, the wooden boxes are also from the old kind and, by the way, you know the Georgians a big success have celebrated?
Timur: Have they overthrown there president?
I: No, the international ship organisation has written a letter to the Georgians and celebrates a big victory. Supposedly the international ship organisation to Georgians, have confirmed that Abkhazia a part of Georgia and the Russians do occupy Abkhazia, therefore Russia an occupying power is.
Timur: This is nothing new
I: Yes and this big success will have the result no more ships will come to Abkhazia.
Timur: Nevertheless, this is not new, nevertheless, the Georgians already have since 1996 thus laws against us and, nevertheless, many private ships go to our harbours and care not much about it.
I: Yes, now I am in perfect fear, this letter will probably admit no more trade and the end of our "Seperatism". So in two days is the ship there? does the captain hand over my product to the duty or do I wait only again three days after your petrol have unloaded?
Timur: No if the captain wants to see these B/L we make it
I: OK