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Sokhumi Blames Tbilisi for Thwarting Talks
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 2 Aug.'06 / 11:32

Foreign Minister of breakaway Abkhazia Sergey Shamba said that the Georgian side's last-minute change in the composition of its delegation led to Sokhumi’s refusal to participate in a session of the Georgian-Abkhaz Coordinating Council scheduled for August 2 in Sokhumi.

“The Georgian side provided us with a list of delegation members only today [on August 1], and there was only one person – Merab Antadze [the State Minister for Conflict Resolution Issues] - who we agreed to beforehand. All other members of the delegation are unknown to us. We offered to hold the session in a smaller format with the participation of only Merab Antadze and the Georgian President’s special representative for [Abkhaz] conflict resolution issues Irakli Alasania, but this proposal was rejected by the Georgian side,” Apsnipress news agency quoted Sergey Shamba.

He said that the delegation's change of composition was the Georgian side’s deliberate move to trigger Sokhumi’s refusal to participate in talks.

Shamba also said that four new members of the Georgian side’s delegation are internally displaced persons from Abkhazia, and the Abkhaz side fears they might be representatives of the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz government-in-exile, which is denounced by Sokhumi as a “puppet government.”

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