Agonist News: Russian Peacekeepers Killed In Abkhazia
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posted by FerrasB on August, 2006 as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/3/2006 8:39 AM
Russian Peacekeepers Killed In Abkhazia
August-2-2006
Stratfor - "Bandits" killed two Russian peacekeepers carrying money for peacekeepers' salaries in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia on Aug. 2, de facto Abkhazian Interior Minister Otar Khetsiya said. There were no early indications or accusations that the Georgian government was involved in the attack.
Sean-Paul Kelley August 2, 2006 - 4:22pm
http://agonist.org/20060802/russian_peacekeepers_killed_in_abkhazia
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MosNews: Russian Volunteer Fighters to Defend Breakaway Abkhazia From Georgia
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/2/2006 12:59 AM Russian Volunteer Fighters to Defend Breakaway Abkhazia from Georgia 02.08.2006 MosNews About 20 Russian volunteer fighters have arrived in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia to lay plans for defending the territory in case of war with Georgian forces, the Russian daily Kommersant said yesterday. The volunteers arrived on Monday from neighboring provinces of southern Russia in response to an operation by Georgian forces last week aimed at taking control of the Kodori Gorge, which is strategically located between Abkhazia and the rest of the country, the paper said. The volunteers claimed to have thousands of backers prepared to join them from southern Russia in order to defend their fellow Russian citizens in Abkhazia. Under Abkhazia’s Russian-backed separatist administration at least 80 percent of the Abkhaz population is thought to have taken Russian ... >> full artcle...
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Georgia: Tbilisi Launches Political Assault In Abhazia
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/29/2006 11:46 PM Friday, July 28, 2006 Georgia: Tbilisi Launches Political Assault In Abhazia By Robert Parsons Georgia – A street in Kodori Gorge, 27Jul2006 Georgian troops in the Kodori Gorge on July 27 (InterPressNews) PRAGUE, July 28, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has ordered the Abkhaz government in exile to move from Tbilisi to the Kodori Gorge. The move is a bold step toward restoring central control over the breakaway province. The Kodori Gorge, a remote mountain valley in the northeast of Abkhazia, is the only part of the province still controlled by the Georgian authorities. Most of Abkhazia has been ruled independently of Tbilisi since achieving de facto independence in 1993. Saakashvili Crows About His Triumph Triumphs, even partial triumphs, have been in short supply in Georgia this year. It's no surprise, then, that Saakashvili ... >> full artcle...
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/31/2006 5:24 PM Jul 31 2006 9:20PM Intl meeting to discuss Georgian-Abkhaz conflict SUKHUMI. July 31 (Interfax) - The Coordinating Council for the Settlement of the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict will meet on Wednesday, Sergei Shamba, foreign minister of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, said on Monday. The meeting, to be held in the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi, will bring together representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, the Russian peacekeeping force stationed in Abkhazia, the UN Secretary General's Group of Friends of Georgia, and UN observers, Shamba told Interfax. "The situation in the Kodori gorge remains complicated," Shamba said. "The tension in the Kodori gorge will persist for as long as there are Georgian armed forces there. We will discuss at the meeting of the Coordinating Council all the violations of the agreements. They have been recorded by the ... >> full artcle...
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Interfax: Intl Meeting To Discuss Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict
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posted by FerrasB on as Abkhazia
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/31/2006 5:24 PM Jul 31 2006 9:20PM Intl meeting to discuss Georgian-Abkhaz conflict SUKHUMI. July 31 (Interfax) - The Coordinating Council for the Settlement of the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict will meet on Wednesday, Sergei Shamba, foreign minister of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, said on Monday. The meeting, to be held in the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi, will bring together representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, the Russian peacekeeping force stationed in Abkhazia, the UN Secretary General's Group of Friends of Georgia, and UN observers, Shamba told Interfax. "The situation in the Kodori gorge remains complicated," Shamba said. "The tension in the Kodori gorge will persist for as long as there are Georgian armed forces there. We will discuss at the meeting of the Coordinating Council all the violations of the agreements. They have been recorded by the ... >> full artcle...
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