Lavrov, Annan Discuss Abkhazia

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the issues of mutual cooperation in Abkhaz conflict resolution issue during the talks in New York on March 8.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the issues of interaction of the CIS Peacekeeping Forces stationed in the Abkhaz conflict zone and the UN Observer Mission in Georgia were discussed in this context.

“The sides marked the necessity of development of a consolidated international strategy to achieve settlement in other conflict regions of the world,” the information note issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 9 reads.