Dear organizers and participants of the Fifth Congress of the Organization of Caucasian Cultural Centres (Kaffed)! Dear brothers and sisters!

Let me greet you on this occasion of general meeting of respected members of the Caucasian communities, as well as honorable guests, assembled here in Ankara in order to discuss matters of importance for our nations and to exchange views on existing problems.

Juris Gulbis, Ambassador of Abkhazia to the Asia-Pacific Region congratulated Vacit Kadıoğlu on his appointment as President of the Federation of the Caucasian Associations of Turkey .

SUKHUM -- President Ankvab held a meeting on the question of the issuing of Abkhazian passports to repatriants. The meeting was attended by the Ministers of Foreign and Internal Affairs, Viacheslav Chirikba and Otar Khetsia, and the Head of the Republic’s Office of the Passport-Visa Service, Lawrence Koghonia.

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The KAFFED, the largest and most influential North Caucasian umbrella organization with 60 active Caucasian associations in Turkey, have issued the following statements to congratulate the prime ministers of Abkhazia and Vanuatu on the occasion of Vanuatu’s diplomatic recognition of the Republic of Abkhazia.

SUKHUM -- The trip of President of Abkhazia in Turkey, where many thousands of Abkhaz diaspora live, is important and can affect a positive solution of a number of issues of repatriation, said in an interview with the Apsnypress correspondent the political scientist and expert on the Caucasian issues Viacheslav Chirikba.

ANKARA -- President Sergey Bagapsh has started a four-day visit to Turkey to meet with the Abkhazian diaspora and to discuss economic relations. At the residence where the Abkhazian delegation are staying there has  taken place the first meeting between the President and representatives of the diaspora. The latter warmly welcomed the head of the Abkhazian state.

Hasan Kanbolat, Today's Zaman

Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh is expected to visit Turkey at the invitation of the Federation of Abkhaz Associations (ABHAZFED) and the Federation of Caucasian Associations (KAFFED).

Tabula.ge -- Although Georgia continues to officially maintain an embargo on the breakaway republic of Abkhazia, experts and local observers now believe that the Georgian Coast Guard may have backed off enforcing the embargo and is no longer seizing Turkish ships bound for Abkhazian ports.

SUKHUM -- President Sergey Bagapsh received a delegation of Abkhaz diaspora from Turkey that has arrived to participate in celebration of Sukhum liberation and unveiling of a monument to Muhajirs.