SUKHUM. Dec 6 (Interfax) - The remains of 23 people who went missing during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in 1992-1993 and found later in Abkhazia have been identified and delivered to the Georgian side, the Sukhum office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Interfax on Wednesday.
"Since the Coordination Mechanism started working, the remains of 273 people have been identified and handed over to relatives, while 1,870 service members and civilians are still unaccounted for," the ICRC Sukhum office told Interfax.
The ICRC acts as a neutral mediator between Georgia and Abkhazia, and continues to provide support in searching for and identifying people who went missing during the war.
In 2010, a coordination mechanism was set up under the aegis of the ICRC to search for people who went missing during the armed conflict in Abkhazia. Since 2013, the remains of those killed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war of 1992-1993 have been undergoing exhumation and identification. Identification work is being carried out at a laboratory in Zagreb, Croatia.