Georgia's Separatists Set Terms For Talks
November 17, 2006
Eduard Kokoity, leader of South Ossetia (file photo) (Bymedia.net)
South Ossetia's leader Eduard Kokoity said talks could restart if Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili signs an agreement vowing not to use or threaten force.
Abkhazia's leader Sergei Bagapsh said there would be no talks until Tbilisi withdraws its troops from the Kodori Gorge, a large stretch of which lies within Abkhazia.
Kokoity and Bagapsh made their comments after talks with Igor Smirnov, the leader of Transdniester, a breakaway region of Moldova.
(Reuters)