Georgian official again demands UN peace-enforcement operation in Abkhazia
Tamaz Nadareishvili, who is chairman of
the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz parliament-in-exile, told journalists that he
presented to the 26 January Security Council session a draft demand that
the UN launch a peace-enforcement operation in Abkhazia and that the session
agreed to submit that demand to the UN. Nadareishvili has been calling
for several years for such an operation (see "RFE/RL Caucasus Report,"
1 July 1999 and "RFE/RL Newsline," 22 February and 11 November
2002). But a state chancellery official said that the draft document will
not be considered at the 31 January Security Council meeting that is to
focus on Abkhazia, Caucasus Press reported. LF
BOMB FOUND ON SOCHI-SUKHUM TRAIN
BOMB FOUND ON SOCHI-SUKHUM TRAIN
An explosive device equal to 2 kilograms of TNT has been found on the Sochi-Sukhum train, Caucasus Press reported on 27 January, quoting an unidentified Abkhaz official. One person has been apprehended in connection with the bomb. The Abkhaz official said there are indications that Georgian guerrillas were behind the planned bombing. Dato Shengelia, a former leader of the Forest Brothers guerrilla formation, threatened earlier this month to blow up the rail line (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 22 January 2003). LF
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