SUKHUMI. Jan 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The breakaway province of Abkhazia cannot accept Georgia's genocide accusations, the self-proclaimed republic's Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Shamba told Interfax on Friday.
Shamba offered his comment in response to Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania's statement that his country's authorities will resume talks on settling the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict only if Abkhazia recognizes the 1993 genocide against the Georgian population.
"Politicians who ruled Georgian at that time should be held accountable for the consequences of the 1992-93 Georgian-Abkhaz war," Shamba said.
"There were both Georgian and Abkhaz casualties during those hostilities. Any war has negative consequences, and political leaders are responsible for foreseeing any possible results of their decisions. That is why Georgia's leaders, who made a decision then to send Georgian troops to Abkhazia, should be held accountable," the Abkhaz official said.