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ABKHAZ OFFICIAL ACCUSES GEORGIA OF DISREGARDING UN RECOMMENDATIONS
7/26/07
A EurasiaNet Partner Post from BBC Monitoring

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[Presenter] Separatist Sukhumi is satisfied with the report by the UN Secretary General. De facto [Abkhaz] foreign minister [Sergey Shamba] has criticized [Georgian Parliament Speaker] Nino Burjanadze for having visited the [youth] patriot camp in [the village of] Ganmukhuri [situated on the administrative border dividing Abkhazia from the rest of Georgia]. He reminded the Georgian authorities of Ban Ki-moon’s position. The UN Secretary General has demanded the closure of the patriot camp in Ganmukhuri, which the separatists have been demanding for a long time now. The de facto government also wants to close the patriot camp in Upper Abkhazia [that is the only area in Abkhazia still under Georgian control]. Sergey Shamba made this statement on Abkhaz TV.

[Shamba, speaking in Russian on Abkhaz TV] Yesterday [23 July], when the UN Secretary General was making this report, Georgian Parliament Speaker Mrs Nino Burjanadze came to the camp in Ganmukhuri, Zugdidi [District], in the security zone and held a meeting with the young people who are there. This is an open disregard of the recommendations by the [the UN Secretary-General’s] "Group of Friends" [for Georgia] and this is an open challenge to the United Nations that, as you can see, has unequivocally demanded support for the statement adopted [at the meeting of the group of friends] in Bonn [on 27-28 June].

Editor�s Note: Source: Rustavi-2 TV, Tbilisi, in Georgian 0800 gmt 25 Jul 07

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