Compatriots have returned to Abkhazia from Syria

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SUKHUM -- The first group of compatriots from Syria, numbering 27 persons (including 12 children) today arrived in Abkhazia. As was reported to ApsnyPress by the head of the regional department of the Foreign Ministry for Turkey and the Middle East, Inar Gitsba, this is the result of two governmental missions at the beginning of this year to the Arab Republic of Syria. During the first visit, the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia and the State-Committee for Repatriation clarified the situation in Syria, and already during the second mission lists of those wishing to return were drawn up on the basis of questionnaires.

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‘Abkhazia’s Day’ in Hamburg’s Museum of Ethnography

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‘Abkhazia’s Day’ was held on 22 April, 2012, at Hamburg’s Museum of Ethnography under the rubric of the annual conference dedicated to the countries and peoples of the Caucasus. As the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia in Germany. Khibla Amichba, reported to ApsnyPress, papers on the history and ethnography of Abkhazia, the Abkhaz language, economics, and the art of our country were presented scientific.

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Up to 30 people are ready to relocate from Syria to live in Abkhazia

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SUKHUM -- President Aleksandr Ankvab chaired a meeting today devoted to the issue of the repatriation of compatriots currently living in the Syrian Arab Republic. Prime Minister Leonid Lakerbaya, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Irakli Khintba, and the head of the State Committee for Repatriation, Zurab Adleiba, and his deputy Ahmad Marshan participated in the meeting.

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Day of Abkhazia in Hamburg

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Abkhazia day is the continuation of the first Caucasian day, which first took place in 2008 at the Museum of Ethnology in Hamburg.

Lectures and an interesting programme inform about the political, economic and social situation in the republic on the Black Sea.

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Nishan Vanacha and Shamil Marshan have repatriated from Syria in Abkhazia

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SUKHUM -- Two of our countrymen, Nishan Vanacha and Shamil Marshan, have come from Syria to Abkhazia.

On Friday 17 February, they were received by Foreign Minister Viacheslav Chirikba. The meeting was attended by the Head of the Turkey and Middle Eastern Section at Abkhazia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Inar Gitsba, and Deputy-Chairman of the State Committee for Repatriation, Akhmat Marshan.

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Inar Gitsba: We are not talking today about immediate mass repatriation

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Semen Pegov / Ekho Kavkaza

SUKHUM - An Abkhaz government mission has returned from the Syrian Arab Republic. The delegation included State Committee for Repatriation Chairman Zurab Adleiba, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Turkish and the Middle East Department head Inar Gitsba, and the chairman of the Federation of Abkhaz cultural centers in Turkey, Firidun Akusba. The mission visited the Syrian capital, Damascus, where it spent two days talking with representatives of the Abkhaz Diaspora. In addition, a number of consultations were held on the socio-political situation in Syria. The Abkhaz Ministry of Foreign Affairs convened a press conference to report on the results of the mission. 

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia once again expresses its readiness to assist compatriots from Syria, who wish to return to their historical Homeland

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On January 10 a meeting was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, in connection with the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, where our compatriots live.

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To the Fifth Congress of the Organization of Caucasian Cultural Centres (Kaffed)

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KAFFED

Dear organizers and participants of the Fifth Congress of the Organization of Caucasian Cultural Centres (Kaffed)! Dear brothers and sisters!

Let me greet you on this occasion of general meeting of respected members of the Caucasian communities, as well as honorable guests, assembled here in Ankara in order to discuss matters of importance for our nations and to exchange views on existing problems.

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