22:10, 16 October 2006

No NATO's plans to send peacekeepers to Abkhazia and South Ossetia

NATO is not planning to move its peacekeepers into the conflict zones of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Raymond Enot, chairman of the NATO's Military Committee asserted. "NATO has no plans to address this issue," Enot told journalists on Monday answering the question on potential NATO's intention to replace Russian peacemakers in Georgia for NATO's servicemen, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

On September 26, Saakashvili told journalists that the Codori Gorge had acquired a new official name - the Upper (High) Abkhazia. On the following day, president of Georgia solemnly opened in the village of Chkhalta of the Codori Gorge the administrative centre of the Abkhazian exile government.

According to Georgian president, from then on, all the ambassadors and diplomats of the foreign states who are engaged in the process of Georgian-Abkhazian settlement and visiting Tbilisi and Sukhumi, would negotiate with the legitimate Abkhazian government in the village of Chkhalta of Upper Abkhazia.