UN SECURITY COUNCIL’S ABKHAZIA RESOLUTION SATISFIES GEORGIA BUT MAY LACK TEETH.

Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze yesterday told the country on radio that the UN Security Council’s July 12 resolution on Abkhazia opened the way toward a political settlement that would ensure Georgia’s territorial integrity. Shevardnadze particularly noted the resolution’s stipulations on the inviolability of Georgia’s borders, the non-recognition of forcible demographic changes in Abkhazia, and the repatriation there of Georgian refugees without linking this issue to that of Abkhazia’s political status. Shevardnadze urged an immediate resumption Georgian-Abkhaz talks, both under Russian mediation and directly, and in the presence of UN observers.

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