Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
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 Area controlled by the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (yellow)
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| Capital | Sokhumi (de jure) Chkhalta, Upper Abkhazia (de facto) |
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| Official languages | Abkhaz, Georgian | |||||
| Government | Partially in exile | |||||
| - | Chairman, Cabinet of Ministers |
Malkhaz Akishbaia |
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| - | Chairman, Supreme Council | Temur Mzhavia | ||||
| Autonomous republic of Georgia | ||||||
| - | Georgian independence from the Soviet Union Declared
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9 April 1991 25 December 1991 |
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| Currency | Georgian lari (GEL) |
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| Abkhazia |
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The Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia is the only government that Georgia recognizes as the legal government of Abkhazia, which has been largely out of Georgia's control since 1993 due to the War in Abkhazia.[1] It is currently partially in exile, headquartered in the village of Chkhalta and not the Abkhaz capital city of Sukhumi.[2] Georgia proposes five-party talks involving this government, the Government of the de facto authorities of Abkhazia, the Government of Georgia, along with Russia and the UN as interested parties in order to settle the final status of Abkhazia within the framework of the Georgian state.[3] Currently this Government administers Upper Abkhazia, a territory that has population of c. 2,000 (1-1.5% of Abkhazia's post-war population) and is centered on the upper Kodori Valley (roughly 17% of the territory of the former Abkhaz ASSR). It is also partly responsible for the affairs of some 250,000 IDPs who were forced to leave Abkhazia following the secessionist war and ethnic cleansing.[4][5]
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[edit] History
During the War in Abkhazia, the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, then called the "Council of Ministers of Abkhazia", left Abkhazia after the Abkhaz separatist forces and their allies from the Confederation of Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus and with possible help from the Russian forces took control of the region’s capital Sukhumi after heavy fighting on September 27, 1993, leading to the Sukhumi Massacre, in which several members of the Abkhazian government, including its chairman Zhiuli Shartava, were executed by the rebels. The Council of Ministers relocated to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, where it operated as the Government of Abkhazia in exile for almost 13 years. During this period, the Government of Abkhazia in exile, led by Tamaz Nadareishvili, was known for a hard-line stance towards the Abkhaz problem and frequently voiced their opinion that the solution to the conflict can only be attained through Georgia's military response to secessionism. Later, Nadareishvili's administration was implicated in some internal controversies and had not taken an active part in the politics of Abkhazia until a new chairman, Irakli Alasania, was appointed by President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, his envoy in the peace talks over Abkhazia.
Amid the ongoing Georgian police operation in Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge, in which a local militia, led by the defiant warlord Emzar Kvitsiani, has been largely disarmed, and the constitutional order restored in the area, President Saakashvili announced, on July 27, 2006, that the authorities have decided to establish currently Tbilisi-based Abkhazian government-in-exile in the Kodori Gorge/Upper Abkhazia. "This decision means that for the first time since 1993 the government enters into the midst of Abkhazia, of our Abkhazia, to exercise Georgian jurisdiction and the Georgian constitutional order. This is very important fact and very fundamental political event," Saakashvili said in his televised address to the nation.[1]
Malkhaz Akishbaia, elected in April 2006, is the current head of this government.
[edit] Heads of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
- Tamaz Nadareishvili, September 1993 – March 16, 2004
- Londer Tsaava, March 16, 2004 – September 30, 2004
- Irakli Alasania, September 30, 2004 – April 24, 2006
- Malkhaz Akishbaia, April 24, 2006 – incumbent
[edit] Executive branch of Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia
| Office | Name | Party | Since |
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| Chairman of Cabinet of Ministers | Malkhaz Akishbaia | Abkhazeti | June 2006 |
| Chairman of the Supreme Council | Temur Mzhavia | Abkhazeti | June 2006 |
| Deputy of Supreme Council | Ada Marshania | Abkhazeti | June 2006 |
[edit] References
- ^ a b Tbilisi-Based Abkhaz Government Moves to Kodori, Civil Georgia, July 27 2006. URL accessed on 2007-07-28.
- ^ Regnum: Abkhaz government in exile will be quartered in Chkhalta village of Kodori Gorge
- ^ The Resolution of the Parliament of Georgia on the measures of conflict settlement in Abkhazia
- ^ Birgitte Refslund Sørensen, Marc Vincent (2001), Caught Between Borders: Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced, pp. 234-5. Pluto Press, ISBN 0745318185.
- ^ On Ruins of Empire: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union Georgiy I. Mirsky, p. 72
