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HE KODORI OPERATION: SMALL VICTORIOUS INTERVENTION OR INCONCLUSIVE

posted by FerrasB on August, 2006 as Abkhazia

From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 8/4/2006 12:39 AM
THE KODORI OPERATION: SMALL VICTORIOUS INTERVENTION OR INCONCLUSIVE
SHOW OF FORCE? Georgian officials have sought to present last
week's incursion into the Kodori Gorge as a major territorial
gain. But such claims gloss over the Georgian failure to apprehend
former Kodori Governor Emzar Kvitsiani, whose defiance of the
Georgian authorities served as the catalyst for what Tbilisi claims
was simply a police operation.
Speaking on national television on July 28, Georgian
President Mikheil Saakashvili said that Georgia now "directly
controls a very important strategic part of the territory of
Abkhazia," and will "establish Georgian jurisdiction and
constitutional order in the heart" of that breakaway region. Georgian
Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili said the same day that
"practically the whole of the gorge is under the control of the
police."
Such claims are, however, an exaggeration, insofar as Georgia
has merely extended its control over ...
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U.S. Official Says Kodori Operation Could Contribute to Stability

posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia

From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 8/4/2006 12:39 AM

U.S. OFFICIAL SAYS KODORI OPERATION COULD CONTRIBUTE TO STABILITY.
Last week, Georgia launched an offensive in the Kodori Gorge, an area
that straddles the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia and the rest of
Georgia. Georgian leaders have hailed the operation as a success;
former Kodori Governor Emzar Kvitsiani, whose defiance of the
Georgian authorities served as the catalyst for the incursion, has
rubbished such claims.
RFE/RL's Georgian Service spoke to Matthew Bryza, a U.S.
deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian
affairs. Bryza is also the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE's Minsk
Group, set up to monitor peace negotiations over the disputed
Nagorno- Karabakh region. Bryza told RFE/RL that Georgia's recent
incursion could actually be a force for stability.

RFE/RL: Some people are saying that the police operation in
the Kodori Gorge has tested the situation between Tbilisi and
Sukhumi, irritated ...
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Agonist News: Russian Peacekeepers Killed In Abkhazia

posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/3/2006 8:39 AM
Russian Peacekeepers Killed In Abkhazia

August-2-2006

Stratfor - "Bandits" killed two Russian peacekeepers carrying money for peacekeepers' salaries in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia on Aug. 2, de facto Abkhazian Interior Minister Otar Khetsiya said. There were no early indications or accusations that the Georgian government was involved in the attack.

Sean-Paul Kelley August 2, 2006 - 4:22pm
http://agonist.org/20060802/russian_peacekeepers_killed_in_abkhazia

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MosNews: Russian Volunteer Fighters to Defend Breakaway Abkhazia From Georgia

posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/2/2006 12:59 AM
Russian Volunteer Fighters to Defend Breakaway Abkhazia from Georgia

02.08.2006

MosNews
About 20 Russian volunteer fighters have arrived in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia to lay plans for defending the territory in case of war with Georgian forces, the Russian daily Kommersant said yesterday.

The volunteers arrived on Monday from neighboring provinces of southern Russia in response to an operation by Georgian forces last week aimed at taking control of the Kodori Gorge, which is strategically located between Abkhazia and the rest of the country, the paper said.

The volunteers claimed to have thousands of backers prepared to join them from southern Russia in order to defend their fellow Russian citizens in Abkhazia.

Under Abkhazia’s Russian-backed separatist administration at least 80 percent of the Abkhaz population is thought to have taken Russian ...
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Georgia: Tbilisi Launches Political Assault In Abhazia

posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia

From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/29/2006 11:46 PM
Friday, July 28, 2006

Georgia: Tbilisi Launches Political Assault In Abhazia

By Robert Parsons

Georgia – A street in Kodori Gorge, 27Jul2006
Georgian troops in the Kodori Gorge on July 27
(InterPressNews)
PRAGUE, July 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has ordered the Abkhaz government in exile to move from Tbilisi to the Kodori Gorge. The move is a bold step toward restoring central control over the breakaway province.

The Kodori Gorge, a remote mountain valley in the northeast of Abkhazia, is the only part of the province still controlled by the Georgian authorities. Most of Abkhazia has been ruled independently of Tbilisi since achieving de facto independence in 1993.

Saakashvili Crows About His Triumph

Triumphs, even partial triumphs, have been in short supply in Georgia this year. It's no surprise, then, that Saakashvili ...
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