Georgia's President-Elect Mikhail Saakashvili addresses soldiers during an opening ceremony of a new military base in the town of Gori, some 80 km (50 miles) west of Tbilisi.
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Georgia Protests Against Lifting Abkhazia’s Sanctions
Russia’s move to free Abkhazia from all trading, economic, financial and transport sanctions has alarmed Georgia. According to News-Georgia, the Foreign Ministry of that country released a special statement via the web-site, expressing clear agitation about that issue.
This move of Russia, the statement of Georgia’s Foreign Ministry said, couldn’t be viewed differently than an open attempt to encroach on sovereignty of the state and on its territorial integrity, otherwise than the encouragement of separatism and dangerous provocation targeted at escalating the tension in conflict area.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced Thursday the lift of the trading, economic, financial and transport sanctions that were imposed on Abkhazia in 1996. Moscow urged other members of CIS to cancel the restrictions applied against that breakaway Republic of Georgia. The ministry notified the CIS Executive Committee that Russia no longer deems itself bound by the Resolution on Actions to Settle the Conflict in Abkhazia and Georgia that the CIS Council passed January 19, 1996.
The situation has drastically changed since 1996, the RF Foreign Ministry pointed out, blaming on Georgia the lack of constructive approach towards execution of previous agreements.
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