Moscow has apparently toned down its criticism of a German peace plan aimed at resolving a conflict with Georgia over its breakaway province of Abkhazia.
Originally, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had described the plan, nurtured by his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier , as unrealistic. However, later at a joint press conference in Moscow, Lavrov described the Berlin initiative as extremely helpful. The three stage plan entails a cessation of violence, the resumption of direct talks between Georgia and Abkhazia and the return of about 250,000 Georgian refugees to the province, which broke away from Georgia in 1992.
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