According to him, "our country is small and we do not need UN offices in every village."
The UN human rights office is open in Sukhumi and this is enough to control the human rights observation in the republic, he noted.
The Abkhaz leadership is ready to discuss with the Georgian side nothing but mutually beneficial economic projects on the basis of Sochi agreements.
The Sochi agreements signed in March 2002 imply the restoration of railway traffic via Abkhazia, Georgia and Armenia, the restoration and development of the Inguri hydroelectric power plant and the return of Georgian refugees to Abkhazia's Galsky district.
"Other issues are out of the question," Bagapsh said.
"The political status of the Republic of Abkhazia is not to be discussed," he emphasized. Sergei Bagapsh met with journalists ahead of the Georgian-Abkhaz meeting in Geneva scheduled for April 7-8. A group of friends of the UN Secretary General will attend the meeting. According to Bagapsh, no talks will be held and no documents will be signed in Geneva.
Speaking about the return of Georgian refugees, the president said they could return only to the Galsky district. "People who fought against our country cannot and will not live here," he stressed.
The armed conflict in the 1990s broke out in the early 1990s when Georgia deprived Abkhazia of the autonomous status and used tough punitive measures against the republic, which declared independence in response. The CIS peacekeeping forces consisting of Russian servicemen were deployed in the Abkhaz-Georgia conflict zone in June 1994.
