SUKHUMI. April 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Abkhazia resumed consultations on a candidate of a new prime minister that take place due to the place that the self-proclaimed republic's government handed in resignation, acting Foreign Minister Sergei Shamba told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
Among the most possible candidates are First Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Raul Khadzhimba.
Shamba said that "at present the situation in Sukhumi is calm, rallies of opposition planned at the initiative of the Amtsakhara movement involving veterans of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict of 1992-1993 are postponed indefinitely."
"There is no need to put the army or Interior Ministry on high alert," Shamba noted.
He stressed that a consultative body featuring officials of public and political movements, parties and lawmakers was formed in Abkhazia to work out proposals on the legislation improvement.
The Abkhaz government handed in its resignation on Tuesday under pressure from opposition which was dissatisfied with the cabinet's work. The escape of a large group of detainees from the Sukhumi detention ward on Monday morning was the final proof of inefficiency of the cabinet, especially its law-enforcement sector.
Four members of Chechen warlord Ruslan Gelayev's guerilla gang, who escaped from a detention ward in Sukhumi on Monday together with five more criminals, managed to get to western Georgia overnight to Wednesday regardless of all measures taken by Abkhaz law- enforcement agencies, Shamba stressed.
The Georgian party categorically denies information on its support to the detainees.