Georgia’s State Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili arrives in Moscow May 16.
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Georgia Transfers Abkhazian Conflict to Russia’s Soil
Georgia’s State Minister for Reintegration Temur Yakobashvili arrives in Moscow Friday for two days. It is the first official visit of Georgia’s delegation to Russia after the change of power.
In Moscow, Yakobashvili will propose to spokesmen of the RF State Duma and Foreign Ministry a new plan for peaceful settlement of Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. According to sources with Georgia’s Reintegration Ministry, the matter at stake will be the deployment of extra neutral contingent in Abkhazia.
It isn’t the replacement of Russia’s peacekeepers yet, explained Konstantin Gabashvili, who chairs Foreign Committee of Georgia’s Parliament. It is replacing the military by other contingent, not only the Russians but the military, as the civil society obeys more the police forces, not the military, and the time has come to replace the military by police, the official pointed out.
The highlight of Yakobashvili’s visit to Moscow is to propose to hold an international conference for settlement of Abkhazian and South Ossetia’s conflicts in Russia’s capital. The scenario of Tbilisi is that the decision to change the format of peacekeeping operation in Abkhazia will be announced exactly at this conference, and should Russia refuse to host the event, it would again manifest the unwillingness to help peacefully settle the conflicts.
But Moscow will hardly welcome the plan of Tbilisi. The idea of conference appears premature, sources with Russia’s foreign Ministry said yesterday.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 16, 2008
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