From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/16/2006 1:43 AM Sep 14 2006 8:49PM Abkhazia strong enough to repel fresh aggression from Georgia - official
SUKHUMI. Sept 14 (Interfax) - The Abkhazian armed forces are strong enough to repel another aggression by Georgia, Deputy Defense Minister of the breakaway republic Garry Kupalba told reporters in Sukhumi on Thursday.
"We have a well-equipped battle-worthy army capable of repelling an aggression," he said.
"There is a huge difference between our armed forces today and what they were in 1992 or even 2000," Kupalba said.
He noted that defense remained the center of the republic's armed forces concept.
"During the last armed standoff between the Swani rebel detachment of Emzar Kvitsiani and Georgian troops in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, we observed neutrality, which proved to be the right thing to do, although we ... >>full artcle...
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/14/2006 2:35 AM Friday, 13 October 2006 UN urges Georgia not to 'provoke' Georgian troops in Kodori Gorge Georgian troops entered the Kodori Gorge in July The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution urging Georgia to refrain from provocative action in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
The resolution also renewed the mandate of a UN mission in Abkhazia which began after the region split in the 1990s.
Tensions rose in July when Georgian troops entered Abkhazia's remote Kodori Gorge to drive out a rebel militia.
Russia had urged a stronger resolution to criticise Georgia for its presence in the Kodori Gorge.
'Legitimate government'
The Georgian government has been consolidating its position in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, the only area of Abkhazia which it controls, says the BBC's Matthew Collin in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital.
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/3/2006 10:15 AM Abkhazian government will organize rest for lost soldiers’ parents 31.8.2006
The government of Abkhazia intended to invite to rest in Abkhazia parents of the volunteers from the Northern Caucasus, who died during the Domestic war of Abkhazian people in 1992-93, the vice-premier Leonid Lakerbaja said to IА REGNUM correspondent. As he explained, as soon as the lists of the lost volunteers’ parents from Kabardino-Balkaria were presented, their rest would be organized within a week. The vice-premier noted that charges on organization of rest of the lost volunteers’ parents were fully incurred by the government.
Note: over 150 children, basically children of the lost volunteers from the Northern Caucasus, had spent this summer holidays at Abkhazian resorts. The Abkhazian government organizes such actions annually.
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/3/2006 10:30 AM Abkhazian volunteers’ union of Adygeya declared self-dissolution 3.9.2006
The public organization the Abkhazian volunteers’ union of Adygeya Republic decided to self-dissolute. As the chairman of the organization Amin Zehov informed IА REGNUM correspondent: "the Abkhazian volunteers’ union of Adygeya had operated only in the territory of Adygeya Republic, it was not a member of any public associations or parties in the territory of Russia and beyond its limits. Last bills of Abkhazia and Adygeya, and the contracts on socially-cultural-economic relations give us the reasons to stop our activities in order to not duplicate the state intuitions. Members of the Union were citizens of Abkhazia and remained true to the oath of protection of Abkhazia’s independence. That decision we made on August 23rd. Within few days we will ... >>full artcle...
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/3/2006 10:30 AM Abkhazian volunteers’ union of Adygeya declared self-dissolution 3.9.2006
The public organization the Abkhazian volunteers’ union of Adygeya Republic decided to self-dissolute. As the chairman of the organization Amin Zehov informed IА REGNUM correspondent: "the Abkhazian volunteers’ union of Adygeya had operated only in the territory of Adygeya Republic, it was not a member of any public associations or parties in the territory of Russia and beyond its limits. Last bills of Abkhazia and Adygeya, and the contracts on socially-cultural-economic relations give us the reasons to stop our activities in order to not duplicate the state intuitions. Members of the Union were citizens of Abkhazia and remained true to the oath of protection of Abkhazia’s independence. That decision we made on August 23rd. Within few days we will ... >>full artcle...
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