TERRITORIAL CLAIMS OF GEORGIA TO ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA IN THE LIGHT OF TREATY OF GEORGIEVSK 1783

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of national self-determination as a basic principle of the national policy and inter-ethnic relations. The author gives specific examples of the self-determined people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the light of Georgievsk of 1783, when the fortress Georgievsk in the North Caucasus Pesotsky, Russia, Ickrath and Gricevje, on the part of the Kartli-Kakheti Kingdom (part of present-day Georgia) signed the Treaty, according to their place of signing later received the name of St. George. The article is controversial, and the author’s concept is to protect the internationally recognized principle of national self-determination