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Abkhazia

an administrative division of NW Georgia, between the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains: a subtropical region, with mountains rising over 3900 m (13 000 ft.); Abkhazian separatists seized control of the region in 1993. Capital: Sukhumi. Pop.: 516 600 (1993 est.). Area: 8600 sq. km (3320 sq. miles)
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(81) Nevertheless, the Abkhaz victory has been purely Pyrrhic; no country in the world officially recognizes Abkhazia. (82) To ameliorate this, Abkhazia has begun to lobby for regional recognition, starting with its closest ally.
In 1992 the UN opened consultations regarding Abkhazia to facilitate political negotiations even as the Russian Federation was fostering political discussions and a tripartite cease-fire agreement.
Moreover, Armenian gangsters are proud of the murders of Georgians in Abkhazia.
Residents of Abkhazia began appealing to medical institutions with a diagnosis acute enteric infection on November 24.
TBILISI: Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia accused Tbilisi on Thursday of trying to suffocate the Black Sea territory and threatened a "proportionate response" to a Georgian blockade in which two ships have been seized this week.AaGeorgia has stepped up efforts to isolate Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, since a five-day war with Russia last August.
As mentioned above, the ethnicity of South ossetia and Abkhazia may not be as homogenous as it is in Kosovo, but nevertheless the Ossetians and Abkhazians comprise the majority of the population.
The disagreement between Moscow and Tbilisi over the status of the two delegations from Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was the main sticking point at the first round of talks, held back in October (see Europolitics 3618).
They are going to Abkhazia," a local police official said, referring to one of two Russian-backed Georgian rebel regions at the heart of last month's conflict between Russia and Georgia.Under the agreement bet-ween Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy, the current EU chief, Russia has until tomorrow to dismantle five posts along the line from Poti to Senaki in western Georgia.
"The separatist regimes of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the Russian authorities are cut off from reality," he said.
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