SUKHUMI, Abkhazia. Feb 11 (Interfax) - A January 29 bombing in a village in Abkhazia that claimed three lives became one of the issues raised at the 12th violence prevention meeting on Tuesday between representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union, the Abkhaz Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
Abkhazia blames Georgia for the bombing in Chuburkhinji village, Gali district, which killed a police investigator and two civilians.
It was Abkhazia that raised the issue at the meeting, the Abkhaz Foreign Ministry press service said.
"The Georgian representatives said [Georgian] special services had nothing to do with the incident and expressed bewilderment at the accusations," it said.
The attack "has been qualified by the law enforcement agencies of [Abkhazia] as a terrorist act against Gali police that was designed to destabilize the situation in the region," Gali police chief Lourens Kogonia said at the meeting.
Kogonia said Abkhazia was investigating the incident. Under an Abkhaz-Georgian information exchange agreement, Abkhazia would report the findings at one of the following violence prevention meetings.
Another issue raised by Abkhazia at the meeting was the tanker Buket, which Georgia seized with its cargo in August 2009, the press service said. Abkhazia has been demanding the release of the ship and its cargo ever since.
A spokesman for the EU Monitoring Mission praised the hotline between the law enforcement agencies of Georgian and Abkhaz border districts, which has existed for about 10 months.
The next meeting in the series is due to be held in Gali on March 2.
Georgia was dissatisfied with Tuesday's meeting. "The meeting hasn't produced any concrete results," Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told reporters after the event.