A U.S. delegation from a NATO group has arrived in Abkhazia on a two-day visit to try and restart talks between the breakaway region and Georgia, broken off in 2006, Abkhazia`s Foreign Ministry said Monday.
The members of the Atlantic Council, a non-profit organization which provides information about NATO, are scheduled to meet on Monday with Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh and Prime Minister Alexandr Ankvab, along with other high-ranking officials.
"The keynote of these meetings will be a possible resumption of the Georgian-Abkhaz negotiation process," the ministry said in an official statement.
The delegation is due to meet with representatives from local non-governmental organizations Tuesday.
Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Between 10,000 and 30,000 people were killed in the subsequent hostilities. The two sides signed a ceasefire in 1994 in Moscow.
Peace talks between Abkhazia and Georgia broke off in July 2006 when Tbilisi sent troops into Abkhazia`s Kodori Gorge and established an alternative Abkhaz administration there.
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