Bagapsh: No Need for New Referendum on Independence

Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh said Abkhazia is not planning a new referendum on independence, as a similar referendum was already held in 1999.

“A huge majority of the population voted for independence in this referendum,” Interfax quoted Sergey Bagapsh as saying on June 1.

Tbilisi condemns this referendum which was held six years after Abkhazia’s de facto secession, as hundreds of thousands of Georgian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were not able to cast their ballots.