From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/28/2005 4:37 AM 26.5.2005 14:08 MSK Georgian abducted in Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone GEORGIA, Tbilisi. David Kikaliya, resident of Nabakevi village, Gali District, was abducted from his home in the early hours of 24 May by four armed Abkhaz men. Later the abductors called his family using the man’s mobile phone demanding $50,000 in ransom.
It has been the second abduction in the last 10 days. Earlier, three Georgians were kidnapped; the abductors demand $200,000 ransom for their release.
Translated by Olga Sharp PRIMA-News Agency [2005-05-24-George-26] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/5/26/32360.html
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/24/2005 6:19 AM 20.5.2005 12:35 MSK Three Georgians kidnapped in conflict zone GEORGIA, Tbilisi. (Our Correspondent) On the evening of May 18th, in the Georgian- Abkhazian conflict zone, members of an unknown Abkhazian group in the village of Nabakevi in the Galskey Region, kidnapped three Georgians, one of whom - Partsvaniya - served in the Georgian peacemaking contingent in Kosovo.
The kidnapping occurred when Partsvaniya and his friends went by car to the village of Pichori in the Galskey Region. One of the kidnapped was freed. He told Partsvaniya’s relatives, that the kidnappers demanded a ransom to release those kidnapped and return their car. The incident will be investigated at the quadrilateral meeting in Chuburkhindzhi.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News [2005-05-19-George-43] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/5/20/32268.html
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/24/2005 10:24 AM FRENCH AMBASSADOR VISITS ABKHAZIA 19.05.2005 - 00:05:20
Lefort noted the significance of French linguist Georges Dumezil´s research on the now extinct Ubykh language...
FRENCH AMBASSADOR VISITS ABKHAZIA
Philippe Lefort met on 16 May in Sukhum with Abkhaz Vice President Raul Khadjimba and Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba, assuring them that France´s withholding of international recognition to the Republic of Abkhazia should not be construed as a mark of disrespect for the Abkhazian People.
Lefort noted the significance of French linguist Georges Dumezil´s research on the now extinct Ubykh language, which was related to Abkhaz.
Lefort was apparently unable to meet with President Sergei Bagapsh and Prime Minister Aleksandr Ankvab, who left on 16 May for talks with Russian officials in Moscow.
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 ... >>full artcle...
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/16/2005 12:25 AM Bagapsh: Abkhazia’s leadership will pay prime attention to defense capacity
Abkhazia president Sergey Bagapsh visited on May, 13th military units dislocated in Ochamchirsky area of the republic. During his inspectional visits in the troops of the eastern group of military forces Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Abkhazian armed forces – president of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh was accompanied by the vice-prime-minister, the minister of defense Sultan Sosnaliev; the first deputy to the head of military forces Merab Kishmaria; the chairman of the parliament committee on defense and security Garry Samanba. As it was informed to the IA REGNUM correspondent in the governmental information administration, the head of the republic held an operative conference in the staff of the eastern group of military forces where they discussed military state and readiness of ... >>full artcle...
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