MOSCOW. Nov 17 (Interfax-AVN) - The leaders of Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia expounded on Friday conditions upon which, they said, the two regions are willing to resume talks with Georgia.
"We propose signing a memorandum on the nonresumption of hostilities and the use or the threat of force. If Mr. Saakashvili [Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili] is ready for this we are ready to meet with him at any moment," South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity told a news conference at the Interfax main office in Moscow.
Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh blamed the stalled talks on Georgia.
"There will be no negotiations before all the troops and the so-called government are withdrawn from the Kodori Gorge," he told the same news conference.
The Kodori Gorge in a Georgian-controlled part of Abkhazia into which Georgia moved troops this summer and where it installed a so-called Abkhaz government in exile.