11:56, 13 January 2004

Abkhazia's proposals on resumption of Georgian-Abkhazian settlement to be delivered to new Georgian president

The Abkhazian leadership is ready to resume the Georgian-Abkhazian talks on the resolution of the conflict, and it has prepared a package of proposals to the new Georgian leadership.

A source at the UN office in Tbilisi reported that this package of new proposals was to be handed in to Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia Heidi Tagliavini during her visit to Sukhum on January 12.

By reports of the Abkhazian media, the leadership of Abkhazia proposes that the future president of Georgia officially refuse from the use of forced methods for the resolution of the Abkhazian problem, undertake obligations on the fulfillment of the agreements reached before, and take effective measures against Georgian gangs acting in Western Georgia.

Ms. Tagliavini has to deliver the proposals of the Abkhazian leadership to Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian president elect.

The talks between Abkhazia and Georgia were broken off in October 2001, when a military operation was undertaken against Abkhazia from the Kondor Gorge in Georgia.

Source: RIA Novosti