Overview
- Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili announced the move, declaring that "South Ossetia" has no place in Georgia’s political or legal framework.
- The entity was created under Mikheil Saakashvili in 2007 and operated from Tbilisi with a largely humanitarian remit for displaced people.
- Vladimir Sanakoev previously led the body, and since 2022 it was headed by Tamaz Bestaev.
- Papuashvili argued the 2007 structure helped reassert the abolished autonomy’s borders and was among factors that fed into the 2008 war.
- South Ossetia’s foreign ministry urged Tbilisi to accept the post‑2008 status quo for regional stability and characterized the Georgian step as driven by domestic political struggle.