SFGate: Proud Abkhazia Fiercely Resists Pull Into Georgia's Orbit
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posted by FerrasB on September, 2006 as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/24/2006 6:37 AM Proud Abkhazia fiercely resists pull into Georgia's orbit - Michael Mainville, Chronicle Foreign Service Sunday, September 24, 2006 Click to ViewClick to View (09-24) 04:00 PDT Sukhumi, Georgia -- Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the lush region of Abkhazia was a playground of the Soviet elite. Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev all had opulent summer homes along its shores. Soviet holidaymakers crowded its beaches, and the boardwalk of the capital, Sukhumi, was renowned for its nightlife. Locals like to say that when he met Khrushchev in Abkhazia, Cuban President Fidel Castro raved that its beauty matched that of his homeland. Today's Abkhazia is a far cry from its halcyon days. More than a decade after a devastating war with Georgia over its post-Soviet status, the tiny self-declared state is a ... >> full artcle...
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Adygeanatpress: DMD: Abkhazian Armed Forces Able To Counteract Aggression
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/17/2006 12:49 AM Deputy minister of defense: Abkhazian armed forces able to counteract aggression 14.9.2006 The deputy minister of defense of Abkhazia Harry Kupalba assured about readiness of the armed forces of Abkhazia for new possible Georgian aggression. Answering questions of the journalists concerned the professional level of the state armed forces, deputy minister of defense declared: "Today we have a well equipped efficient army, capable to neutralize aggression". As IА REGNUM correspondent reported, according to Kupalba, the basis of the military concept of the country is defense. "During the last Kodori incident we have taken a very reasonable position of neutrality, as we had all the reasons to believe that the Georgian party supposed us to get involved in that fight", - affirmed Kupalba. He also noted that today the Abkhazian ... >> full artcle...
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Interfax: Abkhazia Strong Enough To Repel Fresh Aggression From Georgia..
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/16/2006 1:43 AM Sep 14 2006 8:49PM Abkhazia strong enough to repel fresh aggression from Georgia - official SUKHUMI. Sept 14 (Interfax) - The Abkhazian armed forces are strong enough to repel another aggression by Georgia, Deputy Defense Minister of the breakaway republic Garry Kupalba told reporters in Sukhumi on Thursday. "We have a well-equipped battle-worthy army capable of repelling an aggression," he said. "There is a huge difference between our armed forces today and what they were in 1992 or even 2000," Kupalba said. He noted that defense remained the center of the republic's armed forces concept. "During the last armed standoff between the Swani rebel detachment of Emzar Kvitsiani and Georgian troops in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, we observed neutrality, which proved to be the right thing to do, although we ... >> full artcle...
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BBC: UN Urges Georgia Not To 'Provoke'
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/14/2006 2:35 AM Friday, 13 October 2006 UN urges Georgia not to 'provoke' Georgian troops in Kodori Gorge Georgian troops entered the Kodori Gorge in July The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution urging Georgia to refrain from provocative action in the breakaway region of Abkhazia. The resolution also renewed the mandate of a UN mission in Abkhazia which began after the region split in the 1990s. Tensions rose in July when Georgian troops entered Abkhazia's remote Kodori Gorge to drive out a rebel militia. Russia had urged a stronger resolution to criticise Georgia for its presence in the Kodori Gorge. 'Legitimate government' The Georgian government has been consolidating its position in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, the only area of Abkhazia which it controls, says the BBC's Matthew Collin in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital. The separatists ... >> full artcle...
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Abkhaza Government Will Organize Rest For Lost Soldiers’ Parents
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/3/2006 10:15 AM
Abkhazian government will organize rest for lost soldiers’ parents
31.8.2006
The government of Abkhazia intended to invite to rest in Abkhazia parents of the volunteers from the Northern Caucasus, who died during the Domestic war of Abkhazian people in 1992-93, the vice-premier Leonid Lakerbaja said to IА REGNUM correspondent. As he explained, as soon as the lists of the lost volunteers’ parents from Kabardino-Balkaria were presented, their rest would be organized within a week. The vice-premier noted that charges on organization of rest of the lost volunteers’ parents were fully incurred by the government.
Note: over 150 children, basically children of the lost volunteers from the Northern Caucasus, had spent this summer holidays at Abkhazian resorts. The Abkhazian government organizes such actions annually.
IА REGNUM
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