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    RIA Novosti, Russia
    March 22 2004

    HEAD OF STATE DUMA INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE BELIEVES IN CLOSE
    RESOLUTION OF ADZHARIAN CONFLICT


    MOSCOW, March 22, 2004 - RIA Novosti. The conflict around Adzharia
    (autonomy within Georgia) is probably close to resolution, Konstantin
    Kosachev, chairman of the State Duma international committee, told
    journalists on Monday.

    "One cannot but feel satisfied with the conflict around Adzharia
    returning from the hot stage to a cold one," Kosachev noted.

    At the same time he recalled that the only document regulating the
    status of Adzharia as autonomy within Georgia is the Treaty of Kars
    of 1921, which remains valid up to this day.

    According to Kosachev, the recent statements by some representatives
    of Georgia and Turkey that a number of the Treaty's provisions have
    become invalid due to the changed international situation are
    "juridically incorrect".

    "The basic documents of the Potsdam Conference, as well as the Vienna
    Convention of 1969 "About the Right of International Treaties" have a
    reference to this document as a treaty regulating the borders of the
    autonomy, and this allows to speak that the Treaty of Kars keeps its
    legal force," the deputy said.

    In accordance with the Treaty of Kars signed in 1921 between Turkey,
    on the one side, and Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, on the other
    with Russia's participation, Turkey waived its claims to Adzharia,
    which was again becoming part of Georgia.

    In line with this treaty, Georgia was to ensure autonomy to Adzharia
    to the greatest possible extent - cultural, religious and national up
    to the granting to it the right of adopting its own laws.

    Under this Treaty Georgia also undertook to ensure free transit of
    cargoes via Adzharia's Black Sea port of Batumi.
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