SUKHUM. May 30 (Interfax) - Protesters attending an opposition rally in front of the Abkhaz Drama Theater in Sukhum on Tuesday afternoon adopted a resolution demanding that the country's entire government resign.
"We won't demand the president's resignation on the condition that [he] signs a decree on the government's resignation," Abkhaz People's Movement leader Adgur Ardzinba said.
The opposition is demanding that the country's leadership drop "the initiatives which threaten the existence of the Abkhaz state," and change government policy to focus on the national interest.
"The government has not managed the tasks assigned to it and failed to provide a serious anti-crisis program," the opposition says in the resolution, which was voted on by the rally's participants.
In addition, the resolution contains the demand that an Abkhaz presidential council on reform be set up "to design a roadmap addressing national priorities over the next two years, and facilitate its implementation."
The opposition also demands that the country's head of state reverse the decree on liberalizing trade with Georgia, cancel the agreement on transferring the so-called state dacha in Pitsunda to Russia, cancel the Abkhaz-Russian agreement on recognizing court and commercial court rulings in economic cases, quash the government resolution raising tariffs on electricity, abandon plans to submit a bill on the legal status of apartments and apart-hotels to parliament, renounce plans for privatizing power grids, and set up an expert commission to draft an urban planning code for Sukhum.
After the rally concluded, three opposition leaders departed for a meeting with President Aslan Bzhania with the intention of handing him the resolution and to hold talks.
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