Spokesmen of Georgia couldn’t understand what was bad in establishing control of Kodori Gorge.
Photo: Valery Melnikov
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Abkhazia Laid Cloth of Negotiations
Abkhaz village of Chuburkhindzhy, the Inguri-river, hosted yesterday a four-party get-together dedicated to resolving the conflict of Georgia and Abkhazia. No material agreements were attained in the end. It appears the parties are in no mood to reconcile and intentionally escalate the conflict.
It was the first meeting of the parties after Georgia and Abkhazia recently clashed in Kodori Gorge. Abkhazia staked on the U.N. mission in Georgia to win monitoring for the upper section of Kodori, where the exile government of Abkhazia moved and where Georgia is stepping up military presence. Abkhazia challenges the mere establishment of that government in Kodori Gorge actually.
Georgia rebuffed that Abkhazia should first open its Gudauta military base for monitoring. Tbilisi thinks a big military base of Russia is deployed there, the arsenal is enormous and weapons will be used sooner or later.
But unlike Kodori, Gudauta is not a part of the safety zone and these two issues couldn’t be tied to each other.
The meeting of collective joint peacekeeping forces commanders, representatives of the U.N. mission in Georgia and spokesmen of Georgia and Abkhazia lasted for an hour and a half and some of the participants, mostly those standing for Abkhazia and Georgia, got very agitated in the end. To no avail though, as the parties reached no material agreement that day.
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