22:00, 10 April 2007

MFA of Russia: States treat Abkhazia unequally with Georgia

The US Department of State has in fact hampered the unofficial meeting of the Abkhazian representative with the members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on the eve of negotiations aimed to coordinate the text of a new resolution on Georgian-Abkhazian settlement. Washington admits, in principle, this sort of meeting, but only after the UNSC's decision on this resolution will have been passed. Moscow is bewildered by this position of American diplomacy. Such was the comment of the Department for Information and Press (DIP) of the Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on the US' refusal to grant an entry visa to Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia.

"By depriving the Abkhazian party of the opportunity, the USA are in fact trying to put the conflict parties on unequal terms and affect the course of negotiations," the comment emphasizes.

The "Caucasian Knot" has already reported that these days the UN Security Council is considering the issues of Georgian-Abkhazian settlement. The resolution on the situation in the conflict zone is to be passed on April 13.