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Monday, 03 February 2003
ABKHAZ FOREIGN MINISTER PROPOSES AXING UN BODY
By empty (2/3/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Sergei Shamba said in Sukhum on 3 February that the UN-sponsored Coordinating Council intended to promote confidence-building measures between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides should be abolished unless its effectiveness improves. The Coordinating Council was established in November 1997, but has not met since January 2001. Following the standoff last April between Russian peacekeepers and Georgian troops in the Kodori Gorge, the Abkhaz said they will not participate in council sessions unless Georgia withdraws its remaining troops from the upper reaches of Kodori.
Sergei Shamba said in Sukhum on 3 February that the UN-sponsored Coordinating Council intended to promote confidence-building measures between the Georgian and Abkhaz sides should be abolished unless its effectiveness improves. The Coordinating Council was established in November 1997, but has not met since January 2001. Following the standoff last April between Russian peacekeepers and Georgian troops in the Kodori Gorge, the Abkhaz said they will not participate in council sessions unless Georgia withdraws its remaining troops from the upper reaches of Kodori. (ITAR-TASS)