SEMYON GRIGORIEV HOPES FOR GEORGIA TO REALIZE SOME DAY THAT NORMAL FRIENDLY RELATIONS SHOULD BE MAINTAINED WITH AN INDEPENDENT, NEIGHBORING STATE

29/01/2010 09:30       ABKHAZIA, SUKHUM "I think that, eventually, Georgia will realize that normal friendly relations should be maintained with an independent neighboring state”, Russia’s ambassador to Abkhazia Semyon Grigoriev told journalists today.

At the same time, according to him, "it’s hard to come to that conclusion in the emotional atmosphere which exists in Georgia around the problems of Abkhazia and South Ossetian now”. According to the diplomat, "it’s not a matter of the next few years, but, as they often say about complicated international problems, a matter of future generations”.

"But the fact that Georgia and Abkhazia should live in peace, understand ...
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'Absence of Will': A commentary

Friday, 29 January 2010 07:58

'Absence of Will': A commentary Prepared by Metin Sönmez Editor, CircassianWorld.com & AbkhazWorld.com The documentary film "Absence of Will'', financed by Conciliation Resources (UK) and the Heinrich Boell Foundation (Germany), produced by Studio RE, and directed by Mamuka Kuparadze, was broadcast in 2009 for the first time. It is of great importance to anyone who wishes properly to understand the Georgian - Abkhaz War of 1992 - 1993. When I first watched it, I was surprised to find myself watching those responsible for starting the war as they confessed, with regret, the facts that I already knew all too well. While listening to these confession-like statements, the many articles, ...

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Georgia plans for ties with Abkhazia and S Ossetia

DANIEL McLAUGHLIN

Sat, Jan 30, 2010

GEORGIA HAS drawn up a plan to strengthen economic and social links with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, in the hope of eventually regaining control of two rebel regions that Russia has recognised as independent states.

The Georgian government said it "rejects the pursuit of a military solution” in seeking to "achieve the full de-occupation . . . and reverse the process of annexation of these territories by the Russian Federation”, following a five-day war between Moscow’s and Tbilisi’s forces in August 2008.

Tbilisi’s new strategy is intended to restore grassroots co-operation between Georgians, Abkhaz and South Ossetians, by restoring trade links, developing social and cultural projects and improving access to healthcare and education for people in the two disputed territories.

Russia’s military crushed a Georgian bid ...

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Statement by President Sergei Bagapsh in Response to Georgia’s Reintegration Program

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Monday, 01 February 2010 20:10

Georgia’s so-called plan to cooperate with Abkhazia is more than a decade too late. Access to broader trade and commerce, education, healthcare, and cultural interaction are all universally accepted confidence building measures.  Abkhazia offered the same ideas in 1997, and Georgia dismissed them.  Let me be clear. Abkhazia will never again be part of Georgia, and its people will not give up their citizenship for empty promises from an untrustworthy and hostile neighboring Government.  We believe there are some among the Georgian people who would welcome engagement with a free ...

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Stuck in the middle of Abkhazia

Vodka and nostalgia are only friends for the ethnic Georgians trapped in a Russian-sponsored breakaway state that has failed to win recognition from the international community, reports Shaun Walker