NEW REASON FOR TENSION. DOES GEORGIA MAKE A PROVOCATION?

AZG Armenian Daily #143, 01/08/2006

Regional

Last week, Mikheil Saaakashvili, President of Georgia, stated that
he is going to replace "the Abkhazian authorities that function since
1993" from Tbilisi to the upper part of the Kordor gorge, adding that
this will help restore the constitutional law in Georgia.

Evaluating this statement as an attempt to make a provocation and
unfold military conflict, the Abkhazian side stopped the four-later
negotiations with Georgia, UN and the peace-keepers. HTB informed
last week that the Georgian side continues accumulating armed forces
near the border with Abkhazia. The official Tbilisi believes that
the second stage of the operations that envisage the arrest of the
current Abkhazian authorities will be a success.

By Nana Petrosian