From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 6/24/2005 6:44 PM Russian Georgian railway via Abkhazia 24.06.2005 - 00:00:11
GEORGIA, ABKHAZIA, RUSSIA DISCUSS RESUMPTION OF RAIL TRAFFIC
Russian transport minister Igor Levitin said officials from Georgia, Russia and Abkhazia will meet in Abkhazia on July 1 to discuss rehabilitation of the Russian Georgian railway via Abkhazia...
Georgian Abkhaz talks in Moscow discussed reviving rail traffic and the return of refugees to the Gal region.
Georgian, Russian and Abkhaz government representatives met in Moscow under the aegis of the UN to discuss the resumption of rail traffic from Sochi to Armenia via Abkhazia and Tiflis and reached what Abkhaz Deputy Prime Minister Leonid Lakerbaya termed ´´a gentlemen's agreement´´ on doing so.
Then Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached agreement during talks in Sochi in March 2003 that rail traffic should resume simultaneously with the repatriation of Georgian displaced persons to their abandoned homes in Abkhazia´s Gal Raion.
In Tiflis, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli said that Georgia does not oppose the resumption of rail traffic, but numerous problems must be addressed first.
He singled out establishing customs controls and improving the security situation in Gal to enable the displaced persons to return home.
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