From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/13/2006 1:37 PM
Georgia’s Separatists to Ask Russia for Recognition

13.10.2006

MosNews
One of Georgia’s two Moscow-backed separatist regions has said it will appeal to Russia’s parliament to recognize its independence, The Associated Press reported.

The legislature in the breakaway region of Abkhazia is working on an appeal to the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament, Abkhazia’s leader Sergei Bagapsh said Thursday. The appeal seemed designed to deepen the pressure on Georgia’s government as it navigates a worsening dispute with Moscow that has included a Russian blockade on the country.

Abkhazia is a Black Sea province that has run its own affairs since breaking away from government control in a war in the early 1990s, and is one of two Georgian regions seeking independence or union with Russia.

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From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24  (Original Message)    Sent: 10/7/2006 11:50 AM
GEORGIA: SOLANA FEARS KOSOVO 'PRECEDENT' FOR ABKHAZIA, SOUTH
OSSETIA. EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security
Policy Javier Solana on October 4 acknowledged that Kosovo's
campaign for independence could set a precedent for Georgia's
breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Solana also said the European Union could not meet a request
made by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for peacekeepers, but
that Brussels is actively trying to "build confidence" between Moscow
and Tbilisi.
Solana told the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs
Committee in Brussels on October 4 that during a recent phone
conversation, Saakashvili had confessed to "tremendous worry" about
the possible consequences that ongoing UN-sponsored Kosovo status
talks could have for Georgia.
The Serbian province is seeking independence for its 2
million citizens, more than 90 percent of whom are ethnic Albanians.
Belgrade is staunchly opposed, but international negotiations --
begun earlier this ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/30/2006 11:15 AM
Abkhazian state bodies ready to any situation
30.9.2006
     

In spite of the fact that conditions at the Georgian-Abkhazian border are stable, the Abkhazian military and law-enforcement watch the situation around of Abkhazia and are ready to any succession of the events, IА REGNUM correspondent in Sukhumi reported.

Power structures of Abkhazia assure that the Georgian party tries to provoke Abkhazes, moving its military divisions closer to the state border, especially on such days, as today – the Independence Day. Minister of Defense Sultan Sosnaliev did not exclude that the Georgian power structures would move to Zugdidi area - frontier to Abkhazia - Georgia combat forces in connection with the last events in the top part of Kodori gorge. Sosnaliev has the information that the Georgian party made reconnaissance ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/24/2006 6:37 AM
 Proud Abkhazia fiercely resists pull into Georgia's orbit
- Michael Mainville, Chronicle Foreign Service
Sunday, September 24, 2006

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(09-24) 04:00 PDT Sukhumi, Georgia -- Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the lush region of Abkhazia was a playground of the Soviet elite.

Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Mikhail Gorbachev all had opulent summer homes along its shores. Soviet holidaymakers crowded its beaches, and the boardwalk of the capital, Sukhumi, was renowned for its nightlife.

Locals like to say that when he met Khrushchev in Abkhazia, Cuban President Fidel Castro raved that its beauty matched that of his homeland.

Today's Abkhazia is a far cry from its halcyon days. More than a decade after a devastating war with Georgia over its post-Soviet status, the tiny self-declared state is a ...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng  (Original Message)    Sent: 9/17/2006 12:49 AM
Deputy minister of defense: Abkhazian armed forces able to counteract aggression
14.9.2006
     

The deputy minister of defense of Abkhazia Harry Kupalba assured about readiness of the armed forces of Abkhazia for new possible Georgian aggression. Answering questions of the journalists concerned the professional level of the state armed forces, deputy minister of defense declared: "Today we have a well equipped efficient army, capable to neutralize aggression".

As IА REGNUM correspondent reported, according to Kupalba, the basis of the military concept of the country is defense. "During the last Kodori incident we have taken a very reasonable position of neutrality, as we had all the reasons to believe that the Georgian party supposed us to get involved in that fight", - affirmed Kupalba.

He also noted that today the Abkhazian ...
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