Discussions on Assisting Abkhazia, S.Ossetia Planned in Russia’s Federal Council

Hearings on Russia’s efforts to provide “issue-based assistance” to Abkhazia and South Ossetia will be held in Russia’s upper house of Parliament, the Council of Federation, on June 17.

According to an announcement posted on the Council of Federation’s website, at an extended session of the Council’s commission on the North Caucasus, Russian senators and government officials will “exchange opinions on possible measures of federal and regional bodies of legislative and executive bodies of government to implement the course of the Russian leadership on providing – in accordance with international law – issue-based assistance to the population of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.”

Sergey Mironov, the chairman of the Council of Federation, and Grigory Karasin, the Russian deputy foreign minister, as well as the deputy minister of trade and industry, deputy minister of regional development, deputy minister of healthcare and social development are expected to participate in the hearings.

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