SUKHUMI, January 23 (AVN) - The UN secretary-general's envoy to Georgia, Dieter Boden, will chair a session of the co-ordination council for Georgian-Abkhazian conflict settlement here on Tuesday, the headquarters of the CIS Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the conflict zone told the Military News Agency.
The council functions under the auspices of the Geneva negotiating process, a headquarters spokesman said. Its 12th session will involve delegations of Georgia and the self-proclaimed Abkhazian Republic, as well as the Collective Peacekeeping Forces commander, Lieutenant-General Sergei Korobko, and the head of the UN military observer mission in Georgia, Major-General Ahmed Bajwa.
The session will discuss implementation of the bilateral Gala protocol on stabilisation in the security zone, which is controlled by CIS peacekeepers. They are also planning to analyse the situation in the conflict zone and sign a joint statement on the protocol's implementation.
Korobko is unlikely to attend council sessions anymore. He will soon be replaced by Major-General Nikolai Sidorychev, who was appointed to the post on recommendation of the CIS Defence Ministers Council, but has not yet taken office.