Tag: reopening railway through Abkhazia

Abashidze-Karasin talks resume after a four-month break

February 27, 2015 by DFWatch staff

abashidze_zurab — Zurab Abashidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–On Thusday, Georgia and Russia resumed their economic and humanitarian talks after a four-month break.

Georgia’s special envoy Zurab Abashidze and Russia’s deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin discussed trade and reopening

Georgia denies report that it agreed to open Abkhazia railway

September 8, 2013 by DFWatch staff

zurab abashidze — The Georgian PM’s special representative Zurab Abashidze says if the railway through Abkhazia is to be opened it must happen based on the principle of Georgia’s territorial integrity. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian government denies information from Armenia’s Secretary of National Security Council Artur Baghdasaryan that Georgia has agreed to open the railway through Abkhazia.

Baghdasaryan said Georgia, Russia and Abkhazia had all

NATO experts discuss reopening Abkhazia railway

May 1, 2013 by DFWatch staff

bidzina-ivanishvili-nato-pa-rose-roth-seminar-ii — Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili during the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Rose Roth Seminar in Tbilisi this week. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The plan to reopen a railway through breakaway Abkhazia came up during a NATO seminar in Tbilisi.

Lawrence Scott Sheets, South Caucasus Project Director for the International Crisis Group, said during the 83rd Rose Roth Seminar of NATO’s

Saakashvili calls reopening Abkhazia railway 'a Russian game'

January 29, 2013 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili says he will agree to open the railway line through Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia on one condition only: that the Russian occupation of Abkhazia is brought to an end.

Otherwise, opening the railway will mean