Abkhazia
Abkhazia’s Shamba backtracks on plans for Russian naval base in Ochamchira
Abkhazia’s newly reappointed Foreign Minister, Sergey Shamba, has said there are currently ‘no plans’ to establish a Russian naval base in Abkhazia, despite earlier claims by officials to the contrary. ‘As for the Ochamchira port, there are no plans to establish a naval base there’, Shamba claimed, after emphasising at length the significance of Abkhaz-Russian security cooperation. Shamba made the comments in an interview with the Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti published on Thurs
