By empty (7/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Abkhazia has urged the UN Security Council to increase its role in the search for a settlement in the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia, a letter by the breakaway republic\'s foreign minister Sergei Shamba says. The letter has been sent to the UN Security Council President Adamantos Vassilakis. Abkhazia also urged the UN Security Council \"to promote more actively and productively the Georgian-Abkhazian peace process under the aegis of the UN.

By empty (7/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Georgia\'s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia may offer \"military assistance\" to each other \"if there emerges a need for mutual support,\" Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh said on Tuesday. Bagapsh issued the warning at a news conference after talks in Gagra between him and his South Ossetian counterpart, Eduard Kokoity. The Abkhaz leader said, however, that this could not been seen as a plan for a military bloc.

By empty (7/25/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Russian Defense Ministry has denied claims by Georgian officials that its military intelligence agents were involvement in acts of sabotage in Georgia. \"We strongly deny Georgian claims of the alleged involvement of staff members of the General Staff\'s Main Intelligence Department in acts of sabotage and terrorism in Georgia,\" a source in the ministry\'s information and public relations department told Interfax on Monday. \"Claims by the Georgian interior minister about the alleged involvement of Russian military intelligence agents in the terrorist acts and sabotage in Gori and other places in Georgia are untrue, same as Mr.