By empty (2/10/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A meeting of the National Security Council of Georgia, devoted to the situation in breakaway Abkhazia and around it, will be held in Tbilisi on January 22. A Georgian government spokesman told RBC that real ways to stop the railway service between Abkhazia and Russia and the process of systematic granting of Russian citizenship to residents of Abkhazia would be discussed at the meeting. The possibility of closing Georgian airspace for Russian military aircraft carrying out flights to Russian military bases in Georgia and Armenia will be considered among other possible measures.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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