The United States, along with allies close to Georgia, issued a statement via its mission to the Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe.

There has been no progress in re-uniting Georgia with either of its separatist regions, South Ossetia or Abkhazia.

Georgia’s economic recovery continued to gather pace as the country eased the majority of the restrictions it had imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

The straw house home to David Chachanidze and Tina Samadashvili is reachable after a two-kilometre hike uphill from the village of Bakurtsikhe, amid the wine country of eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region.