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Article: GEORGIA: GEORGIAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES ABKHAZ OF ETHNIC CLEANSING...(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- February 29, 2004
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Addressing the UN Security Council on 26 February, President Mikheil Saakashvili accused the authorities of the unrecognized Republic of Abkhazia of pursuing a policy of deliberate ethnic cleansing, RFE/RL's UN correspondent reported. Saakashvili alleged that "we are talking about a situation in which just being ethnically Georgian automatically means being killed if you enter that territory." Members of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia say, however, that thousands of ethnic Georgians who fled Abkhazia's ...