Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has called for an internationally developed "road map" to resolve tensions over Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region.
On Friday Lavrov met with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is pushing a three-step plan which was rejected by Abkhazia's president earlier in the Global Media Forum in Bonn wraps up second day ...
German citizen held by US forces as terror suspect ... day. Originally Lavrov described the plan as unrealistic, but at a later press conference said Steinmeier's initiative was 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 after a civil war.
(Deutsche Welle)
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