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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: UN extends Abkhazia mission until June AFP - Saturday, February 14 UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - - The Security Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the mandate of the UN mission in Georgia for four months pending security arrangements in breakaway Abkhazia to be worked out by Moscow and Tbilisi. The text, which does not mention Georgia by name nor refer to the UN mission by its official name UNOMIG (United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia), extends the mandate, which expires Sunday, "for a new period terminating on June 15, 2009." UNOMIG's mandate extends only to the conflict between Georgia and the breakaway enclave of Abkhazia. The force, which currently fields 131 military observers and 20 policemen, was created in 1993 to oversee a ceasefire accord between the Georgian government and Abkhaz separatist authorities. Japan's UN Ambassador Yukio Takasu, the 15-member council chair this month, voiced hope the resolution "will have a calming effect" on the situation on the ground and linked it to the Geneva talks between Georgia and Russia on security arrangements and humanitarian issues, which are to resume next week. Resolution 1866 said the council intends to "outline the elements of a future UN presence in the region by June 15, 2009," once it has received recommendations from UN chief Ban Ki-moon by May 15, as well as the ongoing Geneva discussions and developments on the ground. Russia sent troops deep into Georgia in August to beat back a Georgian military attempt to retake South Ossetia, a territory which had received extensive backing from Moscow for years. Russian forces later withdrew to within South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another rebel region, under a ceasefire brokered and monitored by the European Union. Thousands of Russians remain in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two enclaves which broke away from Tbilisi in the 1990s. Moscow has recognized both regions as independent states. "We are looking forward to working closely with our friends as well as with the UN to come up with a comprehensive full-scale operation on the ground which will help peacekeeping and monitoring," Georgia's UN envoy Alexander Lomaia told reporters. His Russian counterpart Vitaly Churkin said the resolution highlighted the need for Georgia "to respect the principle of non-use of force" enshrined in the 1994 Moscow accord on a ceasefire and separation of forces. "This is a fundamental issue ... Georgia is continuing to refuse to sign legally binding agreements with Abkhazia and South Ossetia on non-use of force and this is an important destabilizing element in the situation in the area," he added. Churkin also defended Moscow's decision to deploy some 3,800 soldiers in each of the two rebel regions and to set up military bases there. "There is nothing wrong with Russia planning to have military bases on the territory of a sovereign state, Abkhazia," he asserted. "There is a sovereign state, Abkhazia, which has been recognized by the Russian Federation." Last month, a senior source in the Russian navy told ITAR-TASS news agency that Moscow had decided to set up a naval base in the Abkhaz port of Ochamchire, on the region's Black Sea coast. But Britain's UN Ambassador John Sawers sharply disagreed. "We recognize Georgia within its internationally recognized borders, which include the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and therefore any bases that are set up there have to be with the permission of the Georgian government," he said. "We think the Russians' intention to build a naval base or a military base in the area is a cause for concern. It's not going to contribute to stability of the region and we hope the Russians will reconsider." Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday welcomed Turkey's push for a greater diplomatic role in the Caucasus and Black Sea area, saying last year's Georgia war showed US involvement was unnecessary. "The August crisis last year showed the importance of coordination by all countries of the region when such threats arise and showed we can deal with such problems ourselves, without the involvement of outside powers," he said during a visit by his Turkish counterpart Abudullah Gul. 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