President Saakashvili said on October 4 that the Georgian government is planning to install additional settlements in the upper part of Abkhazia, referring to the Tbilisi-controlled areas of the breakaway region, in order to reinforce the central authorities’ presence there.

“This is very important; firstly, to restrain any possible aggression from the north and secondly to totally rule out any possibility of a Kosovo scenario in Abkhazia, because Abkhazia is no longer exclusively in the hands of the separatists,” Saakashvili said.