[Georgian opposition leader pushes plan to solve the Abkhazia and S. Ossetia stand-off, reportedly, the plan has quiet Russian backing. The big sticking point for this agreement is the obvious fact that it is counter to current Imperial plans for the region. Stabilizing the situation that American/Israeli agents have so carefully destabilized over the past fifteen years or so seems like a very good idea to the rest of the world, but not to those whose geopolitical plans have one goal–
permanent, total world domination.
ending the planned “end game” is the only solution to the world’s problems.]
Russia May Revoke Recognition of Rebel Regions, Noghaideli Says
By Helena Bedwell
Хелена Бедуэлл (Helena Bedwell)
© Риа Новости, Бесик Пипия
May 4 (Bloomberg) — Georgian opposition leader Zurab Noghaideli, a former prime minister, said he has “a clear plan” to make Russia reverse its recognition of two separatist Georgian regions as sovereign states.
“The plan is to secure the return of thousands of Georgian refugees” to the two regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, “and to restore economic and political ties,” Noghaideli told reporters in Tbilisi today.
“If Georgia can resolve its conflict with the Abkhaz and Ossetian peoples, Russia has told me they would support this initiative” and the “miracle” of restoring the two regions to Georgia “could happen,” Noghaideli said.
Russia routed Georgia’s U.S.-trained army in an August 2008 war over South Ossetia. In the wake of the conflict, Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as sovereign countries. More than 100,000 people were displaced during the conflict, according to the Georgian government. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said the decision is irrevocable.
More than 20,000 people fled the Akhalgori region in South Ossetia following Russia’s occupation of the region, Noghaideli said, while more than 2,000 were displaced from the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia.
Without the Georgian government’s participation, it will be “difficult” to improve relations with Russia or the separatists, Noghaideli said.
‘Occupied Regions’
Temur Iakobashvili, Georgia’s reintegration minister, declined to comment on Noghaideli’s statement.
“The government has a strategy for the occupied regions and it’s working,” Iakobashvili said by telephone. “The first stage is under way, and even under the occupation we feel that we have to help the two regions and their people.”
Noghaideli began the Georgian opposition’s effort to cultivate ties with Moscow when he signed a deal to cooperate with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. He plans to travel to Russia for talks on May 7.
Noghaideli became Georgia’s prime minister in 2005 and was removed from office in November 2007 as President Mikheil Saakashvili lifted a state of emergency declared after violent clashes between police and opposition protesters. Noghaideli moved into opposition a year later.
–Editor: Patrick G. Henry
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