News Digest
ABKHAZIA BEGINS SPRING MILITARY MANEUVERS
By empty (4/18/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Over 3,000 men -- regular troops and reservists -- are participating in war games near Sukhum that began on 18 April and will last for four days. Abkhazia holds such maneuvers every year in the spring, but this year\'s are reportedly the most extensive ever, and include ground, naval, and air forces. Representatives of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) and of the Russian peacekeeping forces deployed under the CIS aegis in the Abkhaz conflict zone will observe the exercises, UN special envoy Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini told journalists on 18 April.ARMENIA TAKES ISSUE WITH OSCE STATEMENT
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Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamlet Gasparian said on 18 April that the \"cautious criticism\" expressed by the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairmen of the recent violations of the Armenian-Azerbaijani cease-fire is unlikely to deter Azerbaijan from further \"sabre-rattling and bellicose statements.\" In their 15 April statement, the co-chairmen appealed to both sides to reinforce the cease-fire along the Line of Contact that separates Armenian and Azerbaijani forces and to refrain from further bellicose rhetoric. Gasparian said that since Armenian politicians do not make such aggressive statements, the Minsk Group statement was clearly addressed to Azerbaijan.MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRMEN EXPRESS CONCERN OVER CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS
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In a statement released in Vienna on 15 April (http://www.osce.org/item/13896.ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET WITH MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIRMEN
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Vartan Oskanian and Elmar Mammadyarov met separately at the U.S. Embassy in London on 15 April with the three co-chairmen of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group, RFE/RL\'s Armenian Service reported.Visit also
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