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Georgia Ready to Offer Abkhazia Autonomy
2004-02-27
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The new president of Georgia said Thursday he is ready to negotiate full autonomy for the separatist Abkhazia region to end the decade-long conflict. President Mikhail Saakashvili told the Security Council he was "ready to guarantee the highest possible degree of autonomy to Abhkazia within the Georgian state" or to discuss other options such as a federal system during U.N.-led talks known as the Geneva process.
"They can federate with Alabama, no problem!"
Any solution, he stressed, would have to keep Georgia intact. The new president has made the resolution of internal disputes a key goal.
Why? They don’t like you. You don’t like them. Why the show?
Some 16,000 people were killed in the war over Abkhazia and 300,000, mostly ethnic Georgians, were forced to flee their homes. The refugees make up a vocal pressure group. Abductions and attacks are still a way of life there common. Speaking later at the Council on Foreign Relations, Saakashvili warned that the conflict in Abkhazia could worsen. "This kind of conflict will degenerate into one big, uglier, bad conflict. I mean, a really bloody one. So what we really need to do, we need to move," he said.
Another Chechyna?
Posted by:Steve White

#1  No! Another Nagorno-Karabakh.
Posted by: phil_b   2004-2-27 6:03:59 AM  

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