Here is some information which had been managed to get in Syria. I shall tell, it is very uneasy to get it.
So, the total quantity of Abkhazes in Syria makes more than 10 000 people.
The place of their residing - 99 percent live in Damascus.
For today about 200-300 persons were ready to move to Abkhazia.
The situation in the country is very upsetting and unstable. There are no open war operations meanwhile, but opposition accrues. Practically every day in the various cities skirmishes with police and militarians take place. A civil war can blow out at any moment. The process of the events will develop most likely according to ‘the Libyan script’.
The situation inside our Adygeyan (not only Abkhazian) Diaspora is uneasy, too. There is no unity in questions whom Adygs should support - authorities or protesting persons. As it is so in case of development of an open conflict in the ‘hot phase’ (civil war), our compatriots will be beaten both by those and the others.
Now I got contacts of people which are considered as influential among Abkhazes so I will try to communicate with them. It is a question not only about the well-known official leaders, such, for example, as Sharah Abaza, but also the others which have authority among people.
Sources of the information allow me not open.
Regularly we have consultations with the president of the World Congress of Abkhazo-Abasin people Taras Mironovich Shamba on the specified questions.
We still confirm our readiness to leave Syria in case of adoption of such decision by the leadership of Abkhazia.
Yours faithfully, adviser of the president of the World Congress of Abkhazo-Abasin people Beslan Kobahia
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