GEORGIA-RUSSIA-ABKHAZIA-DIPLOMACY

Picture taken on December 28, 2007 shows a woman and her daughter at a balcony overlooking a building destroyed during a separatist war in the arly 1990s in Abkhazian capital of Sukhumi. The breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia appealed to Russia and the international community on March 7, 2008 to recognize its self-declared independence, Russian news agencies reported. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA