“In case Abkhazian refuses to renew peace talks and does not agree on the status within the Georgian state, Tbilisi will have to restore the territorial integrity by force”, President Shevardnadze stated during the briefing today.
President of Georgia said he is optimistic regarding the solution of Abkhazian problem because he is sure that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will not make the same mistakes as his predecessor Boris Yeltsin did regarding Abkhazia.
President Shevardnadze approved Vladimir Putin’s statement about Russia’s readiness to withdraw peacekeepers from Abkhazia. “I will prefer if the Ukrainian peacekeepers replace them”, Shevardnadze announced today.