June 3. Minister of foreign affairs of Abkhazia Sergey Shamba went with a working visit to Turkish Republic. As the deputy minister maxim Gvindija informed "Apsnypress", Sergey Shamba would have a number of meetings with the Abkhazian Diaspora in the cities of Istanbul, Ankara, Adapazar and others.
In his trip the minister is accompanied by the deputies of the parliament – repatriates Soner Gogua and Taali Hvatysh. S. Shamba will return to Sukhum on June 6.
The problem of returning home for the compatriots is one of the most urgent for Abkhazia. Only in 2007 over 400 compatriots from the near and distant foreign countries got the citizenship of Abkhazia. More than 300 families were given habitation. In the XIX century as a result of the Russian-Caucasian war thousands of Abkhazes left the historical Native land and found their shelter in the countries of the Near East.
Today the descendants of Abkhazian mahadjeers live in 50 countries all over the world, and a great part of them - in Turkey.
NatPress