Parliamentary opposition has voiced a new initiative about the amendments to the Law on Occupation after the lawmakers failed to adopt the draft amendments proposed by the majority by the second attempt. Leader of the minority Davit Bakradze says they have a compromising version of the sanctions on border violation on the occupied territories. He says the laws and sanctions should be similar for Georgian borders as on occupied territories, so beyond the occupation. The opposition is also prepared to support more liberalization of the law if administrative fine for the very first violation will be enforced not only on the occupied territories, but on the rest of the country as well.
`I am proposing a compromising version of the draft amendments to the majority - lets enforce a unified regime of border protection and within this regime, the administrative fine will be imposed on the first violation. Our goal is not to arrest or detain people, but we really want to make border protection system in Abkhazia and on the rest of the Georgian territory,` Davit Bakradze said.
Majority has responded to the minority leader. Paata Zakareishvili says the opposition could have held consultations with them before the parliament begun to discuss the draft law. He says none of the opposition MPs even gave a phone call to discuss the alternative version of the draft law.

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