From: MSN Nicknamepsychoteddybear24 (Original Message) Sent: 8/25/2006 1:18 PM
GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ TENSIONS RISE OVER KODORI GORGE
Tbilisi's move to reassert control over region bordering Abkahzia enrages
separatists.
By Giorgi Kupatadze in Tbilisi and Inal Khashig in Sukhum
Georgia's decision to move the Abkhaz government-in-exile close to Abkhazia's
border has enraged the secessionist administration in Sukhumi and further raised
tensions.
The end of the 1992-93 conflict left Abkhazia a self-declared but unrecognised
country. The Georgian government, which insists it is still the legitimate
authority, set up its own administration for Abkhazia, although in reality this
exerts no real control over the breakaway territory.
Until now, this government-in-exile has been based in Tbilisi. But that status
quo was shaken on July 27, when Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili announced
that the pro-Tbilisi administration was to be shifted to the upper Kodori gorge,
the only part of Abkhazia not held by the separatists.
The gorge's 4,000 ...
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