Georgian-Abkhaz Talks Postponed

UN-sponsored Georgian-Abkhaz talks on security guarantees scheduled for July 20 in Tbilisi were postponed until July 22, the office of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia reported.

The talks were postponed because Abkhaz Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba?s was unable to arrive in Tbilisi on time, citing unspecified technical problems.

The sides were expected to discuss a document on registering Georgian internally displaced persons from Abkhazia at the talks, which will be held in frames of the so-called Geneva process and will inclulde representatives of Georgia?s Group of Friends of the Secretary-General, involving France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.

An influential Abkhaz opposition group organized under the Forum of People?s Unity called on the unrecognized republic?s government on July 15 to prevent the return of Georgian internally displaced persons back into Abkhazia.

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