European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana has urged separatists in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region to re-open peace talks which have been largely suspended for two years.
Solana who paid a visit to Abkhazia on Friday also said that Brussels was prepared to mediate in the conflict that has strongly strained Russian-Georgian relations. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev responded by saying that Russia and Georgia were capable of solving their dispute over the separatist region by themselves. Medvedev and Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili have been meeting at a summit of ex-Soviet leaders in St Petersburg where they pledged UN report says Russia shot down Georgian spy plane ...
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Georgia demands Russia reversal ... to improve bilateral ties. Relations between Georgia and Russia have plummeted over the status of the two Georgian breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Tbilisi's desire to join NATO.
(Deutsche Welle)
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