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Russia is ready to help the UN secretary general\'s special representative organize meetings between officials of Georgia and the breakaway province of Abkhazia to discuss security issues, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told journalists on Tuesday. The group of friends of the UN secretary general for Georgia will hold a meeting in Geneva on April 7-8, Yakovenko said. Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister Valery Loshchinin and representatives of Great Britain, Germany, the United States and France will attend the event, he said.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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