Georgia: Railway resumption and IDPs return to be simultaneous

(Tbilisi. March 7, 2003. Civil Georgia)

• The joint statement of the Georgian and Russian President's adopted after the talks held today in Russia's Black Sea resort Sochi.

The statement reads that the process of resumption of the railway connection between Sochi and Tbilisi via Abkhazia "should be synchronized with the process of return of IDPs in Abkhazia, first of all in Gali district."

According to the statement for the implementation of the decision a Russian-Georgian joint governmental commission will be created.