On April 13, 2010, the border guards of the Republic of Azerbaijan shot and killed the citizen of Georgia, resident of village Erisimedi, Sighnaghi municipal district, the 17-year-old Ibragim Gaorgashvili, who has accidentally crossed the Georgia-Azerbaijan state border and entered the Azerbaijani territory while searching for the lost cattle.
Against the background of the traditionally good neighborly relations between Georgia and Azerbaijan, which are further solidified by the common interests of the two states on a number of strategic issues, killing of an innocent civilian by the individual representative of the law-enforcement agencies represents an especially despicable act. We believe that a citizen of a neighbor state, who accidentally ends up on the other side of the border of a friendly state, should not be shot on defeat.The Georgian side demands a thorough and timely investigation of this incident. We are confident that the Azerbaijani side will undertake all the necessary measures to punish the perpetrators in full accordance with the law.
On the 14th of April, 2010 the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Mr. David Jalagania has met the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to Georgia H.E. Mr. Namig Hasan oglu Aliev.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia expresses its sympathy and conveys its condolences to the Ibragim Gaorgashvili`s family.
