Sokhumi
spares no effort to affirm that there is no reason to make Abkhazia an
"outcast from the European community," Sergey Shamba, the breakaway
region's PM, said on March 12, according to the Abkhaz news agency,
Apsnipress.
Shamba, who before becoming PM last month served as foreign minister for twelve years, met with visiting EU Special Representative for South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, in Sokhumi.
According to Apsnipress, the European diplomat informed Shamba about EU's proposals on engagement with Sokhumi.
According to a recent report on Abkhazia
by Brussels-based think tank, International Crisis Group (ICG), in
December, 2009 EU’s Political and Security Committee agreed a
"non-paper on the parameters for EU’s non-recognition and engagement
policy for Abkhazia and South Ossetia" aimed at carving ...