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1) Georgia Tries To Shake Down Russia On CIS Peacekeeping Bases In Abkhazia, South Ossetia 2) Georgia Claims Russian Planes Violated Its Airspace - In Abkhazia 3,4) Abkhazia Refuses Talks Over Reincorporation Into Georgia http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1046355418,34058, Civil Georgia February 28, 2003 MPs Urge Finance Ministry to Calculate Russia�s Military Debt to Georgia (Tbilisi. February 27, 2003. Civil Georgia) - The issue of Russia�s debt to Georgia for use of military bases deployed in Georgia was discussed at the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security today. The Committee requested Georgian Finance Ministry to calculate the total sum of the debt. According to the Committee�s calculations Russia�s debt for use of the military bases in Georgia since 1992 consisted approximately USD 300 million. The Georgian Foreign Ministry reports that the issue of rent payment for use of military bases will be raised by the Georgian side during the Russo-Georgian talks on military problems in April. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1046424464,32362, Civil Georgia February 28, 2003 Georgian Airspace Violated Over Kodori (Tbilisi. February 28, 2003. Civil Georgia) - Two military aircrafts intruded into Georgian airspace over Kodori gorge, which is the only territory in breakaway Abkhazia controlled by the Georgian authorities, on February 27. Georgian Border Guard Department reports that the military aircrafts entered from Russia. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1046363020,25154, Civil Georgia February 28, 2003 Sokhumi Refuses to Start Talks on Abkhazia�s Status within Georgian State (Tbilisi. February 27, 2003. Civil Georgia) - Abkhaz de facto Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba met in Sokhumi on 26 February with Euro-parliamentarians, which pay fact-finding visit to Georgia, and told them that Abkhazia will not agree on talks with Tbilisi regarding the Abkhazia's status within the Georgian state. Russian media sources report quoting Shamba �90 percent of population of Abkhazia voted in a referendum in 1999 to endorse the constitution adopted in 1994 that considers Abkhazia as an independent republic.� Tbilisi demands from Sokhumi to start talks on document elaborated by the UN Secretary General�s former envoy in Georgia Dieter Boden, which considers Abkhazian status within the Georgian state. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/georgia/hypermail/news/0084.shtml Eurasia.net February 28, 2003 EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DELEGATION VISITS ABKHAZIA Abkhaz Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba met in Sukhum on 26 February with four visiting European Parliament deputies and told them that Abkhazia will not agree to any talks with Tbilisi on Abkhazia's status, Interfax and Caucasus Press reported. He recalled that 90 percent of the unrecognized republic's population voted in a referendum in 1999 to endorse the constitution adopted in 1994 that describes Abkhazia as an independent republic. Shamba also recalled that in 1992 Abkhazia proposed talks with Tbilisi on establishing a federation, but Georgia "preferred to send tanks into Sukhum" and committed widespread human rights violations and genocide during the 1992-93 war. He noted that a document was also drafted in 1997 on establishing a confederation, but Georgia has rejected it. Also on 26 February, ITAR-TASS quoted Shamba as saying that unspecified points contained in the new proposals for resolving the Abkhaz conflict discussed last week by the Friends of the UN Secre tary-General group "are of interest" to Abkhazia, while others need further consideration. LF __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
