"With tensions simmering between Georgia and Russia over Abkhazia, a new effort is under way to jump-start peace talks in the separatist region.
Earlier this month, Mathew Bryza, the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, visited the Abkhaz capital Sukhumi. Bryza’s Abkhaz visit was followed by one by Irakli Alasania, Georgia’s ambassador to the United Nations.
Bryza said his efforts at shuttle diplomacy are aimed at building on a peace plan proposed earlier this month by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili that offers Abkhazia broad autonomy but not independence.
"What I was doing was trying to convince the leadership in both Sukhumi and Tbilisi that there is not only an urgent need but a real possibility to rejuvenate a real peace process," Bryza told RFE/RL in a May 21 interview."
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/pp052408.shtml
If Abkhazia agrees to the plan in which it is autonomous, but not independent, then peace will hopefully flourish in the region. It is also understandable if the Abkhaz reject the plan as well. The Abkhaz want their own homeland not to be controlled by others. Therefore, they will fight for their right to be independent.
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