COORDINATION COUNCIL FOR GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ SETTLEMENT RESUMES WORKING

The eighth session of the first working group of the Coordination Council for Georgian-Abkhaz settlement, which operates under the aegis of UN, is taking place today in Tbilisi. Prime News informs that Major-General of the Pakistan army Anis Akhmad Bajva, the head of the Mission of UN military observers in the area of Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, will be the chairman of the session. The Georgian Minister for Special Affaires Malkhaz Kakabadze, the first deputy of the Defence Minister of the Sukhumi government, Lieutenant-General Givi Agrba and the commander of the Collective forces of CIS for supporting peace in Abkhazia, Major-General Nikolay Sidorychev will also participate in the Tbilisi meeting.

Among other questions the situation in the Kodor gorge in Abkhazia, which after the war in 1992-1993 remained under the jurisdiction of the Georgian authorities, will be discussed during the session of the working group. The introduction of heightened secure measures in the Kodor gorge is to be confirmed at the meeting, so that will help the UN military observers and Russian peacemakers to resume joint patrolling the gorge from air and land. The sessions of the Coordination Council were interrupted in April of the current year by the decision of the Sukhumi authorities, who accused the Georgian side in organization on the Abkhaz territory acts of sabotage and diversion and kidnapping people.