SUKHUMI. July 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Georgia has continued to reject all contact and negotiations with representatives of peacekeeping forces in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict area, the UN mission, and Abkhazia, and is continuing a military operation in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, an official spokesman for the Abkhaz government said.
"We have tried to establish contact with the Georgian side, but they have refused to talk with us, even though a quadripartite meeting of a working group has been planed for today to discuss the settlement of the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia," Abkhaz presidential envoy to the Gali district Ruslan Kishmaria told Interfax.
Talking about the operation in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, Kishmaria said, "We consider this operation a military rather than police one, because, in addition to police forces, at least one thousand servicemen from the Georgian Defense Ministry who took part in the so-called peacekeeping operation in Iraq are involved in it," he said.
The Georgian security forces "have far-reaching plans," he said.
"They are planning to reinforce their foothold in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge to gain the chance to put pressure on Abkhazia in case armed clashes break out between our army and Georgia's," he said.