Sukhum/Agency Caucasus – The administration of Abkhazia continues to send in additional troops to the region of Gal that stands on the border of Georgia, a region that has become all the more fragile in the wake of the war in August between Russia and Georgia, Abkhaz Prime Minister Aleksandr Ankvab said.
Ankvab met with the permanent representative of the United Nations in Gal, Johan Verbeke. They talked about the Geneva negotiations that were postponed to November 19 while they had originally been scheduled to start in October.
The situation has become worsened over again along the border of Georgia after the war broke out in August, he said: "Therefore, we feel the need to support the armed forces positioned along the border."
Ankvab also said that there have recently been several Georgian attacks on the region of Gal. He dismissed as untrue some news stories that appeared in Georgian newspapers about Georgians, or the Mingrelians, being kept under pressure in Gal.
He accused the administration of Georgia of trying to throw Gal into chaos whereas it was under an obligation to keep the people in the region safe.
