Georgian Security Council approves request to UN for peace-enforcement operation in Abkhazia
Tamaz Nadareishvili, who is chairman of
the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz parliament-in-exile comprising Georgian deputies
to the Abkhaz parliament elected in 1991, told journalists in Tbilisi on
24 February that the parliament-in-exile has asked the UN Security Council
to mount a peace-enforcement operation to bring Abkhazia back under the
control of the central Georgian government, Caucasus Press reported. Nadareishvili
added that the Georgian National Security Council has approved that initiative.
Nadareishvili claimed the Abkhaz authorities are so alarmed by his campaign
to persuade the United Nations to mount such an operation that they have
sent hit men to Tbilisi to murder him, Caucasus Press reported. At the
same press conference, Nadareishvili also said that a deputy security minister
of the Abkhaz government-in-exile and two of his subordinates have been
fired for leaking to parliament a document falsely alleging that Nadareishvili
has at his command an illegal armed formation code-named Jupiter (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 12 February 2003). LF
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