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MosNews: Georgia Assails Russian Role In Breakaway Abkhazia

posted by FerrasB on June, 2006 as Abkhazia

Georgia Assails Russian Role in Breakaway Abkhazia

12.07.2006

MosNews

A top Georgian lawmaker accused Russia on Tuesday of blocking international efforts to resolve a long-simmering dispute between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia province, the Reuters news agency reports.

The criticism by Georgia’s parliamentary speaker, Nino Burjanadze, during a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council drew an angry response from Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.

“I am very disappointed. Burjanadze made a big mistake by this kind of a diatribe against Russia,” Churkin told reporters after the meeting, calling her remarks “completely unacceptable” and counterproductive.

Abkhazia won effective independence from Georgia in a 1992-93 war, and Moscow props it up by paying pensions, issuing Russian passports and allowing cross-border traffic while acting as the lead “facilitator” in the peace process.

Georgia, home to 200,000 ethnic Georgian refugees who fled the war, has ...
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/29/2006 4:19 PM
25-May-06
Progress in Abkhaz Peace Talks

The fact that Tbilisi and Sukhum come up with new peace initiatives is seen as a positive step, even if they continue to disagree on most issues.

By Anton Krivenyuk in Sukhum and Sofo Bukia in Tbilisi (CRS No. 341, 25-May-06)
New life was breathed into the Abkhazian peace process this week when Georgian presidential adviser Irakli Alasania personally handed a peace plan to the Abkhaz authorities.

The plan presented by Alasania, together with an Abkhaz plan which President Sergei Bagapsh handed over in Tbilisi on May 15, represent the most detailed documents to be presented since the conflict ended 12 years ago with Abkhazia claiming independence from Georgia – a claim still unrecognised by the outside world.

Calling his plan a “key to the future”, Bagapsh ...
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