Saturday, May 30, 2026

'We'll reunite breakaway regions through negotiations'

Irakli Alasania led negotiations with Abkhazia early in Saakashvili's presidency. Now an opposition politician, he says there will be a new effort if the opposition wins in October. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The main opposition bloc in Georgia says if it wins October’s election, it will get back the breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia through negotiations, with Germany as mediator.

Irakli Alasania, an ex-diplomat and opposition politician who

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Breakdown in talks between Georgia and breakaway region

The head of the EU observers in Georgia is a persona non grata in Abkhazia. The breakaway region’s leadership thinks he should have investigated an alleged build-up of paramilitaries in Western Georgia. (Illustration photo. EU.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The de facto foreign ministry of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia has declared the head of the EU observers a persona non grata.

As a consequence, the ministry canceled the 36th planned meeting of the incident prevention mechanisms on Tuesday.

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Georgia's interior minister must explain warning against 2008 war

Interior minister Vano Merabishvili must come to parliament today to explain what happened in late 2006, when an influential businessman says he warned Merabishvili against getting the country entangled in a war.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s interior minister, Vano Merabishvili, must today answer a question in parliament about a warning he received a year and a half before the war with Russia in August 2008.

The billionaire who says he made the warning is now building an opposition

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