Tbilisi/Agency Caucasus – Mikheil Saakashvili, the nationalist President of Georgia, has toned down his language after Russia sent off additional peacekeeping forces to Abkhazia.
"Nobody will benefit from the rise of tensions across the Caucasus," said Saakashvili while he paid a visit to a war veteran in Gori.
Regional unity must be assured at whatever expense, said Saakashvili and called for the need to pay heed to agreement in views and efforts to seek a way out of the deadlock.
When Saakashvili vowed before he was reelected president to resume his country’s control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008, he caused the tension to rise. As he pursued this end by piling up the Georgian military presence both in Upper Kodor and along Georgia’s border with South Ossetia, Russia felt the need to send additional peacekeeping forces off to the area.
