- 15:12 15/08/2006
Georgia has used a so-called anti-crime operation in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge aimed at disarming a rebellious militia unit as a pretext to deploy military forces in the area, a Russian army general said Tuesday. 
- 21:57 14/08/2006
- 13:23 11/08/2006
Georgia has every legitimate reason to refuse a Russian peacekeeping role in international monitoring of a gorge forming de facto border between the breakaway region of Abkhazia and Tbilisi-controlled territory, Georgia's Foreign Ministry said Friday.
- 16:46 08/08/2006
A deputy Russian foreign minister said Tuesday Russia advocated revitalization of a UN-chaired coordination council set up to break a long-standing impasse over the status of a Georgia's breakaway republic.
- 16:02 08/08/2006
"The Georgian side is ready to accept UN monitoring of the gorge provided that Russia's participation in the effort is minimal - no more than one person in the team, and that no Russian helicopters are used to monitor the area," Irakly Okruashvili said.
- 18:32 02/08/2006
Georgia's military operation in the Kodori Gorge could seriously hamper the settlement of the long-running conflict between Georgia and the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, Russia's deputy foreign minister said Wednesday.
- 17:14 02/08/2006
Authorities of the Georgian breakaway republic of Abkhazia said Wednesday that Georgia had deployed over 2,000 soldiers along with military hardware and helicopters in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge, and was continuing to increase its military presence.
- 13:45 02/08/2006
Georgian media reported earlier that Russian peacekeeping forces had set up a new checkpoint in the town of Lata in the Korodi Gorge, which is the de facto border between Abkhazia and Georgia.
- 17:03 29/07/2006
Parliament is calling on "the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Group of Friends of the UN Secretary General and Russia to force Georgia as an aggressor state to comply with its obligations on the Abkhazian-Georgian conflict resolution."
- 20:44 28/07/2006
Russia is concerned that Georgia might be planning to make the Kodori Gorge a "beachhead" for an offensive against Abkhazia to bring the breakaway region under its control, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.
- 16:34 28/07/2006
The president of Georgia's self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia said Friday that Georgia had torpedoed four-party talks on resolving the long-running conflict.
- 16:17 28/07/2006
- 13:30 28/07/2006
Abkhazia's leader said Friday the breakaway republic could pull out of talks with Georgia, following Tbilisi's decision to appoint its own government to reinstate control in the region's rebellious gorge.
- 10:18 28/07/2006
Georgia's Interior Ministry launched Friday the second phase of a police operation in the Kodori Gorge, in its breakaway region of Abkhazia.
- 22:05 27/07/2006
"With approval of Georgia's parliament and the country's prime minister, I made the decision to base, for the first time since 1993 in the Kodori Gorge, Abkhazia's legitimate government, which will spread Georgia's jurisdiction to this territory," Mikheil Saakashvili said addressing the nation.
- 21:10 27/07/2006
Georgia's president said Georgia fully controlled the Kodori Gorge. "Today, Georgia made a serious step forward and restored full control over the territory of Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge for the first time in the past 13 years," Mikheil Saakashvili said.
- 20:09 27/07/2006
Georgia's authorities said Thursday the Interior Ministry had completed a special operation in the troubled Kodori Gorge but that security forces would stay in the area for the time being.
- 15:47 27/07/2006
Russian peacekeepers in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone have been ordered to open fire in the event of a deliberate attack on their positions, a senior Russian military officer said Thursday.
- 09:51 27/07/2006
Georgia resumed Thursday what it called an anticrime operation in a remote gorge that forms the de facto border between government-controlled territory and the breakaway republic of Abkhazia.
- 22:11 26/07/2006
- 20:10 26/07/2006
- 17:48 26/07/2006
- 17:26 26/07/2006
Russia is closely monitoring the situation in the Kodori Gorge and has cautioned Georgia against violating agreements covering the area, the foreign minister said Wednesday.
- 16:20 26/07/2006
Georgia's authorities have set a deadline of four hours for a rebellious militia leader to surrender and admitted their first losses in an operation to capture him, a television company said Wednesday.
- 15:57 26/07/2006
"We will shoot to kill [anyone] crossing even one meter into Abhazia's border," Sergei Bagapsh said. He spoke at the end of a meeting with an OSCE delegation on a one-day visit to Abkhazia.
- 14:59 26/07/2006
Units from Georgia's Interior Ministry have established control over most of a remote gorge on the border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia, local television reported Wednesday.
- 13:22 26/07/2006
- 12:17 26/07/2006
Georgia is conducting a military rather than police operation in the Kodori Gorge in breakaway Abkhazia, the commander of the CIS peacekeeping force in the region said Wednesday.
- 10:07 26/07/2006
Officials in Georgia said Wednesday a police operation to disarm what they called criminal gangs in a gorge on the de facto border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia was continuing.
- 22:23 25/07/2006
- 21:01 25/07/2006
Russian peacekeepers have confirmed reports about gunfire being exchanged in the Kodori Gorge in Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
- 20:49 25/07/2006
- 18:02 25/07/2006
The president of Georgia's self-proclaimed republic South Ossetia said Tuesday that Georgia is staging provocations in the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia, another of its breakaway regions, as a pretext to start a war.
- 16:09 25/07/2006
"We share the concern of the Abkhaz side over the growing tensions in the Kodori Gorge, the deployment of a large Georgian military contingent there, and the possibility of hostilities breaking out in the area," the ministry said.
- 13:41 25/07/2006
Georgia's authorities hope to resolve a conflict peacefully in a gorge on the border with the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia but are not ruling out the use of force, a high-ranking government source said Tuesday.
- 12:41 25/07/2006
An armored convoy with Georgian troops is moving toward the Kodori Gorge, the only Tbilisi-controlled area in the northwestern breakaway region of Abkhazia, Georgian television company Imedi reported Tuesday.
- 11:31 25/07/2006
Russian peacekeepers have detained two Georgian light-armored prime movers and two cars in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, a mission spokesman said Tuesday.
- 11:24 25/07/2006
Georgia's prime minister said Tuesday talks with a former presidential envoy who leads an outlawed battalion in the only Tbilisi-controlled area in the northwestern breakaway region of Abkhazia were impossible.
- 11:05 25/07/2006
Russian peacekeepers have detained two Georgian light-armored prime movers and two cars in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, a mission spokesman said Tuesday.
- 20:17 24/07/2006
Two checkpoints of Russian peacekeepers in the Kodori Gorge in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia have been put on high alert over fears of escalating tensions, a peacekeeper said Monday.
- 17:48 24/07/2006
Georgia's parliamentary speaker said Monday the situation in the only Tbilisi-controlled area in the country's breakaway region of Abkhazia was difficult but not in crisis, which meant Russian peacekeepers could be withdrawn.
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