From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/9/2006 4:46 PM 6-July-06 All Change in Abkhaz Peace Process
Leading negotiators move on just as new plans emerge in the long-running Georgian-Abkhaz peace talks.
By Anton Krivenyuk in Sukhum (CRS No. 347, 6-July-06) Two influential leading figures are leaving the Georgian-Abkhaz peace process, creating a vacuum at a sensitive point in negotiations.
The leading international mediators in the process - Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini, special representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Georgia, and the Georgian presidential representative Irakli Alasania, who has built up a good relationship with his Akbhaz counterparts - are both taking up new positions.
The two are leaving just as the UN-sponsored Coordinating Council on the dispute resumes work after a five-year break. Several new ideas are under discussion, including the formation of a UN police force for the conflict ... >>full artcle...
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/4/2006 5:16 AM
Tuesday, July 4, 2006, #123 (1143)
Abkhaz separatists against railway reconstruction M. Alkhazashvili
Abkhaz political circles say it is impossible to restore Russia-Georgia railway route via Abkhazia at this stage. This issue was discussed during a round table meeting of the Abkhazian branch office of the Caucasus Democracy Institute, which had been created at Moscow's initiative. Abkhazian de facto MPs, administration members and representatives of political parties participated in the meeting.
The newspaper 24 Saati says that according to Oleg Damenia, the head of Strategic Research Center, if this project is implemented Abkhazia will find itself in a political deadlock. He adds that the consortium regulations connected with the renovation of the railway are against the Abkhazian Constitution.
According to Astamur Tania of the Public Unity Forum, by renovating the railway route ... >>full artcle...
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/30/2006 1:00 PM Refugees’ rush from Batumi to Sukhumi: a Georgia’s provocation? 30.6.2006
"If it is a provocation of Georgia with the purpose of escalation of the situation in Abkhazia, we shall take all the measures for its prevention", - the president of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh declared during the press conference on June 29th, making comments on the Georgian refugees’ intention ‘ to reach on foot from Batumi to Abkhazia.
"We have warned the governor of Zugdidi area about that he should not allow mass gathering of people to the Inghiri bridge", - said Bagapsh. - We have the arrangement and pacts, fixing the reasons the refugees would come back for. We return them to Gali area, we shall not retreat an iota from our position". The president of Abkhazia also ... >>full artcle...
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