From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/21/2007 2:14 AM
19/07/2007
Abkhazia puts focus back on homecoming
Sukhum / Agency Caucasus - The Abkhazian administration places focus on homecoming from Diaspora over again after earlier official attempts failed to meet expectations.
The Abkhazian Parliamentary Committee for Return held a meeting in an effort to draw up a newer official program of encouragement for future returns from Diaspora.
The committee meeting promoted a proposal to meet the needs prior to the settling of Abazins as a whole.
Words of support for anyone who wants to return to Abkhazia came from the Parliament Speaker Nugzar Ashuba when he proposed that further work with schooling both at college and university levels should be developed.
Soner Gogua, an Abkhazian member of the parliament of Turkish descent, who acts as head of the committee, was heard to place emphasis on the need to provide accommodation as well as employment for returnees.
Information about returnees came from Anzor Mukba, Head of the State Committee for Demography and Return. He quoted a total of 571 families as being officially accommodated from 2005 to 2007. Those families include the Abkhazians who came both from and Batum, and the Abazins who came from Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria and . A group of 282 people switched in 2005 to Abkhazian citizenship, 1246 in 2006 and 122 in 2007.
Most returnees are seeking a place to occupy in the capital city of Sukhum .
Returnees have to agree not to sell their houses for the next 15 years if they want to be officially accommodated.
One of the participants at the committee meeting was Sergei Shamba, Foreign Minister of Abkhazia. He delivered to other participants some information both about the Georgian Group of Friends meeting at the headquarters of United Nations (UN) Secretary General and his talks with several officials about Abkhazian Diaspora.
A returnee of Turkish descent captured in Tbilisi
Gogua asked Shamba for help with the release of a returnee of Abkhazian citizenship when he spoke about an incident in which Georgian front guards arrested members of a crew on a Turkish vessel while it was carrying coal from Abkhazia. KU/ÖZ/FT
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