Tbilisi, 4 October 2006 - President Saakashvili said on October 4 that the Georgian government is planning to install additional settlements in the upper part of Abkhazia, referring to the Tbilisi-controlled areas of the breakaway region, in order to reinforce the central authorities’ presence there.

“This is very important, firstly, to restrain any possible aggression from the north and secondly to totally rule out any possibility of Kosovo scenario in Abkhazia, because Abkhazia is no longer exclusively in the hands of the separatists,” Saakashvili said.