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Titolo: UN Security Council Adopts Resolution on Georgia, UN Mission Extended

UN Security Council Adopts Resolution on Georgia, UN Mission Extended
Created: 14.10.2006 11:13 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 19:44 MSK, 8 hours 39
minutes ago
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The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday that
extends the mandate of a U.N. observer mission in Georgia and urges the
former Soviet republic to avoid threatening steps in the Russian-backed
breakaway region of Abkhazia, The Associated Press reported. 
The resolution, which extends the mission until April 15, backed all
efforts to settle peacefully the Georgia-Abkhaz conflict and appealed to
both side “to refrain from any action that might impede the peace process.”
Abkhazia is a Black Sea province that has had de facto independence since
1993, when two years of fighting with Georgian troops ended. Russian
troops have been deployed there and it is one of two Georgian regions
seeking independence or union with Russia.
The United Nations has maintained an observer mission since 1993 to
monitor the cease-fire between Georgia and Abkhazia. It now has about 400
people.
Tension between Tbilisi and Moscow has heightened sharply since Georgia
arrested Russia officers on espionage charges last month. Despite their
swift release, Russia retaliated with sanctions against its small,
southern neighbor, including a transport blockade.
Georgia accuses Russia of backing the separatists in Abkhazia and South
Ossetia in a bid to maintain its influence and undermine the government of
President Mikhail Saakashvili, who has pledged to rein in the breakaway
regions. Last month, Saakashvili flew to Kodori Gorge, a part of Abkhazia
controlled by government forces, to rename it Upper Abkhazia to try to
reassert control over the region.
The resolution “once again urges the Georgian side to address seriously
legitimate Abkhaz security concerns, to avoid steps which could be seen as
threatening and to refrain from militant rhetoric and provocative actions,
especially in upper Kodori valley.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cast the resolution as a triumph
for Moscow, saying it “reflected all of Russia’s fundamental suggestions”
and asserting it “unequivocally” attributed heightened tension between
Georgia and Abkhazia to Georgia’s “illegal actions in the Kodori Gorge,”
Russian news agencies reported.
A patrol of the gorge Friday by U.N. observers and Russian forces in
Abkhazia as Commonwealth of Independent States peacekeepers turned up a
sizable arsenal of weapons and ammunition, as well as 550 Georgian police,
according to the commander of the peacekeepers, Maj. Gen. Sergei Chaban.
Lavrov demanded the immediate removal of the weapons and ammunition, the
RIA-Novosti news agency reported, and Abkhazia’s separatist President
Sergei Bagapsh said Abkhazia would not resume negotiations with Georgia on
a settlement of their conflict before the “complete withdrawal of Georgian
forces and weapons” from the gorge, Interfax reported.
Chaban said Georgian authorities claimed the cache had belonged to forces
led by Emzar Kvitsiani, a local militia leader whose refusal to disarm
prompted Georgian forces to enter the upper portion of the gorge and take
control over the summer in an operation condemned by Russia and Abkhazia.
The Security Council resolution reaffirms the U.N. commitment “to the
sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Georgia.”
Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters the main purpose of
the resolution is to bring peace to the region. “It is mostly a resolution
calling all the parties to the conflict to go back to (the) negotiating
table to work out their difficulties and differences amicably,” he said,
stressing Russia’s “important part in trying to settle that long-standing
conflict.”
The United States had opposed the Russian draft but U.S. Ambassador John
Bolton said an agreement was reached during a conversation between Lavrov
and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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