Wednesday, 18 January 2006

ABKHAZIA OPPOSES UN CIVIL POLICE PRESENCE

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By empty (1/18/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Abkhazia opposes the idea of sending UN civil police units to its Gali district, the republic\'s Security Council chief Stanislav Lakoba told the press on Wednesday. \"We want to settle our internal state problems on our own,\" he said. Lakoba also said that \"subversive and terrorist operations in the Gali district are being incited by Georgian special services.
Abkhazia opposes the idea of sending UN civil police units to its Gali district, the republic\'s Security Council chief Stanislav Lakoba told the press on Wednesday. \"We want to settle our internal state problems on our own,\" he said. Lakoba also said that \"subversive and terrorist operations in the Gali district are being incited by Georgian special services.\" \"The arrival of UN civil police units in the zone of the Georgian- Abkhazian conflict may hinder operations by the Collective Peacekeeping Force of the Commonwealth of Independent States,\" he said. \"Georgia\'s efforts to draw civil police into Abkhazia reflects its desire to force Russian peacekeepers out of Abkhazia and replace them with a UN contingent,\" he added. (Interfax)
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