TBILISI. Nov 18 (Interfax-AVN) - The UN Security Council session for Abkhazia slated for Friday will evidently become the last attempt to settle the conflict by peaceful means, Georgian presidential advisor Levan Aleksidze has told Interfax-Military News Agency.
He said Georgia believes it is still possible to pass the document drafted by the former special envoy of the UN secretary general for the Georgian-Abkhaz settlement Dieter Boden that provides for sharing powers between Tbilisi and Sukhumi which Abkhazia has been resisting so far.
If the document proposed by Boden is blocked, Georgia will have to demand the application of the provision of the UN Charter under which one of the sides is compelled to peace by force, Aleksidze said.
The provision "does not provide for the beginning of warfare," he explained. "It means that tough economic and political sanctions will be taken against the separatist regime and pressure will be put on the nations that do not support such sanctions, which will eventually make the Abkhaz party accept the conditions it is offered," he noted.
According to Aleksidze, application of this scenario must be proposed to the UN Security Council "toughly, specifically and on the highest level, for which the visit of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze to New York may be necessary."
Otherwise, "refugees will start returning to Abkhazia on their own, carrying axes, knives and hayforks," he stressed.