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April 18, 2008

Georgia: Could More Dialogue, Fewer Demands, Be Ticket on Abkhazia?

by Salome Asatiani, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - For Georgians and Georgia-watchers, it's a familiar scene that plays out every few years: Tbilisi unveils its latest proposal offering its breakaway region of Abkhazia a promise of political, economic, and cultural rights in exchange for reintegrating with Georgia. Abkhazia strenuously refuses. And the dialogue begins anew.

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