MOSCOW HOLDS TALKS WITH LEADERS OF GEORGIAN BREAKAWAY REPUBLICS
By empty (11/29/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov held several meetings on 27-29 November with Aslan Abashidze, leader of the Adjar Autonomous Republic; Raul Khadjimba, prime minister of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia; and Eduard Kokoyty, president of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, Russian media reported. Ivanov told journalists on 29 November that \"one should not see a conspiracy\" in the closed-door meetings. It is natural, he said, that these leaders would come and express their concern in the wake of the recent developments in Georgia because of the large number of ethnic Russians living in those regions.Visit also
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