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Georgian Defense Minister Giorgi Baramidze and Georgian Minister for Conflict Resolution Giorgi Khaindrava arrived in Moscow on 9 August for talks aimed at reducing tensions between the two countries regarding the situations in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Khaindrava told journalists that the goal of his mission is to convey to the Russian side the Georgian government\'s position on the two situations and \"to receive an answer to the question of from where the separatists are getting modern weaponry.\" The two men are expected to meet with Defense Minster Sergei Ivanov and the chief of the General Staff, Colonel General Yurii Balyuevskii.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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