On June 8, Inal Ardzinba, the de-facto Foreign Minister of the separatist Abkhazia, said that the status of Abkhazia as a sovereign state is non-negotiable.

"If Georgia wants to develop normal relations with us, then we demand the recognition and signing of a mutually binding agreement on the non-use of force to maintain long-term stability in our region," the minister added.

Ardzinba recalled that there had already been precedents in history when Georgia officially recognized the state sovereignty of Abkhazia, recalling the decision of the Revolutionary Committee of Georgia on May 21, 1921. "We are confident that this will definitely happen in the new historical realities. It is inevitable; there is no other way out of the situation," the minister said.

He called the territorial claims of Georgia ridiculous and cited as an example how in 1917, Georgia claimed the Tuapse region of the Russian Empire.