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.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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