TBILISI. Oct 19 (Interfax-AVN) - Dieter Boden, the UN secretary general's envoy to Georgia, called on Friday on the parties to the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict to resume the political dialogue as soon as possible.
Boden told Interfax-Military News Agency that he had been constantly trying to restore the negotiating process in the past few days. He said he was maintaining regular telephone contacts with the Abkhazian leadership, but noted that it was "too early to talk on details of the negotiating process and emerging collisions."
According to him, the UN Security Council plans to discuss the document on division of powers between Georgia and Abkhazia at its session on October 30. The document was drafted by officials of several countries friendly to Georgia. The Abkhazian authorities still refuse to discuss the document considering their republic to be an independent state. Nevertheless, the UN is hoping for sooner restoration of the Georgian-Abkhazian political dialogue in the near future and I am calling on the parties to do so," Boden stressed.
Boden's attempts to resume sessions of the co-ordination council on Georgian-Abkhazian settlement were disrupted by a new escalation of tensions in Abkhazia and outbreak of warfare between the Abkhazian army and a Georgian-Chechen rebel group which had crossed into the self-proclaimed republic.