The EU special representative for the South Caucasus has said he is "concerned" that Georgian refugees are not returning to their homes in the Kodori Valley in eastern Abkhazia.
Peter Semneby was speaking during a meeting with Abkhazian Prime Minister Sergei Shamba in Sukhumi.
He said Abkhazia should create conditions for the refugees to return. Up to 200 Svans (an ethnic minority related to the Georgians) have returned to their homes in the Kodori Valley since Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war in August 2008 over South Ossetia. Thousands of ethnic Georgians were displaced following the fighting.
Shamba said however that the issue is Abkhazia's internal affair.
"The government's policies are aimed at helping people who have already returned to adapt," he commented.
SUKHUMI, January 28 (RIA Novosti)
