SUKHUMI, September 9 (RIA Novosti) - Abkhazia's foreign minister and Georgia's state minister for conflict resolution agreed Saturday at a meeting in the UN mission headquarters in Sukhumi to resume talks.
"The sides agreed on the necessity to resume the negotiating process both as part of four-party meetings [Georgia, Abkhazia, UN and peacekeepers] and in the framework of the Coordination Council of the Georgian and Abkhazian sides under the UN aegis and with participation of the Russian Federation and the Group of Friends of Georgia," Abkazian Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba said.
The negotiating process was interrupted after Georgia's secret services launched a special operation in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge.
"At the meeting the Abkhazian side spoke for demilitarization of the upper part of the Kodori Gorge and withdrawal of all armed units of Georgia's Defense Ministry," Shamba said.
