Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Georgia

Abkhazia Rejects Offer Of Broad Autonomy

Sergei Shamba, foreign minister of the unrecognized republic of Abkhazia (file photo) (InterPressNews)

June 10, 2006 -- Georgia's separatist republic of Abkhazia today rejected an offer of broad autonomy from Tbilisi.

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June 10, 2006

Abkhazia's Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba said Abkhaz authorities will never abandon its objective of creating an independent state.

Georgia on June 9 made public a plan to make Georgia a federal state, offering broad autonomy and providing aid to develop Abkhazia's economy.

(AP)

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