SUKHUMI. Oct 31 (Interfax-AVN) - The UN observer mission will analyze the state of security in Abkhazia's Gali district before the end of the year.
"The UN mission will analyze the state of security in the Gali district of Abkhazia before the end of the year and submit to donor organizations proposals on the provision of financial aid to the area," deputy envoy of the UN secretary general on the Georgian- Abkhaz settlement Roza Otunbayeva told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
According to her, "UN officials are already on an evaluation mission in the area aiming, in particular, to raise the level of protection of Georgians who returned to the site."
Otunbayeva said that "the number of Georgian refugees who returned to the area amounts to some 60,000." As much as 90,000 Georgians were living there before the conflict of 1992-1993.
According to UN officials, restoration of peaceful life is slow in the district. "Taking into account a high crime rate, the mission's leadership proposed that Sukhumi and Tbilisi held corresponding training for the police of Abkhazia's Gali district and Georgia's Zugdidi district," Otunbayeva said.
He stressed that such measured had been tested Bosnia and brought substantial results. "Primarily we will have to make sure that the police is equipped with modern communication means," Otunbayeva added.