Monday, 10 February 2003

GEORGIA CONSIDERS WAYS TO CLOSE RAILROAD FROM RUSSIA TO ABKHAZIA

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By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A meeting of the National Security Council of Georgia, devoted to the situation in breakaway Abkhazia and around it, will be held in Tbilisi on January 22. A Georgian government spokesman told RBC that real ways to stop the railway service between Abkhazia and Russia and the process of systematic granting of Russian citizenship to residents of Abkhazia would be discussed at the meeting. The possibility of closing Georgian airspace for Russian military aircraft carrying out flights to Russian military bases in Georgia and Armenia will be considered among other possible measures.
A meeting of the National Security Council of Georgia, devoted to the situation in breakaway Abkhazia and around it, will be held in Tbilisi on January 22. A Georgian government spokesman told RBC that real ways to stop the railway service between Abkhazia and Russia and the process of systematic granting of Russian citizenship to residents of Abkhazia would be discussed at the meeting. The possibility of closing Georgian airspace for Russian military aircraft carrying out flights to Russian military bases in Georgia and Armenia will be considered among other possible measures. The National Security Council meeting will be held before a session of he UN Security Council on January 31, where the situation in Abkhazia is to be discussed. According to the spokesman, Georgia intends to make every effort to achieve real progress in settling the conflict, so that the UN Security Council\'s session would not end with the adoption of a formal resolution. The spokesman added that influential political parties of Georgia insisted on raising the question of forceful restoration of peace in Abkhazia at the session of the UN Security Council. (RBC)
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