President Saakashvili?s speech at the UN General Assembly Session was an indication of the Georgian side?s intention to pull out from the Georgian-Abkhaz negotiating process, the breakaway Abkhaz Foreign Ministry said in a statement on September 25.
?Mr. Saakashvili?s speech proved once again that Tbilisi tries to portray the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict as a conflict between Georgia and Russia. This kind of approach is an attempt to put responsibility for the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia [in the early 90s] on someone else,? Apsnipress news agency reported, quoting a statement from the unrecognized republic?s Foreign Ministry.
The statement says that Saakashvili?s speech is a sign that ?unfortunately, Georgia is not yet ready for a peaceful co-existence with Abkhazia.?
The Abkhaz Foreign Ministry also stated that only the Russian peacekeeping forces can serve as guarantors for the non-resumption of hostilities in the conflict zone.
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