PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION DISSATISFIED WITH REPORTS ON RAILWAY IN ABKHAZIA

Prime News Agency, Georgia
May 30 2006

Tbilisi. May 30 (Prime-News) – The Interim Committee of the Parliament
of Georgia for Restoration of Territorial Integrity of Georgia
discussed the issue on restoration of the Georgian-Russian railway
movement via breakaway Abkhazia at the closed session on Tuesday.

The committee members were not satisfied with the incomplete report
by Irakli Ezugbaia, Director General of Georgian Railways Ltd on
the ongoing talks on restoration of the Georgian-Russian railway
movement via the breakaway region of Abkhazia, Prime-News was told
by representatives of the Commission.

On May 04th the agreement was reached in Moscow, according to which
the Georgian, Abkhazian, Russian and Armenian parties signed a protocol
on creation of the Black Sea Railways Consortium, which must supervise
rehabilitation of the railway bed in Abkhazia.

he Georgian party demands to be given a right to control the Abkhazian
railway bed and register it as a property of the Georgian Railways,
as priority.

Executives of the Georgian Railways Ltd were charged with a task to
deliver more detailed report in the nearest future.