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Strategy Session with Georgian Opposition Leader

June 18, 2009
Irakli Alasania

The Atlantic Council hosted Irakli Alasania, former Georgian Ambassador to the United Nations and Chairman of the opposition "Alliance for Georgia," for a strategy session to discuss the way forward on Georgia's territorial conflicts.  The event was staged in cooperation with the newly established Center for Black Sea-Caspian Studies at American University's School of International Service.  The Atlantic Council's Strategic Advisors Group, counselors to the Council's Initiative on Georgia and the Caucasus, as well as select leading experts brainstormed on what strategies Georgia and the West should advance today in order to maintain the prospect of a unified Georgia in the future.

Ambassador Alasania, who resigned his UN post to join Georgian politics in December 2008, discussed a strategy for Georgian policy toward its breakaway regions from an opposition perspective.  The group debated non-violent measures which could prevent the unrecognized independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from becoming an enduring reality.  Alasania, whose father was executed in the early 1990s conflict with Abkhazia, developed a reputation as an effective mediator in government negotiations with Abkhazia.

For more information, contact Damon Wilson at dwilson@acus.org.

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