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Georgian-Abkhaz Study Trip to Cyprus
[A] selected number of Georgian and Abkhaz experts and businesspeople…visited Cyprus to study the Greenline Regulations. These regulations facilitate economic relations across the divided island of Cyprus in the absence of a political solution to the conflict…The trip was part of International Alert’s Economy and Conflict project’s on-going work…analysing the possibility of normalising economic relations across the Ingur/i river, the current conflict divide...[T]he trip stimulated further ideas among legal experts, economists and representatives from business communities to continue discussing cross-divide economic relations in the South Caucasus. During the next phase, the process will be engaging business communities on developing additional measures towards regulating cross-Ingur/i economic relations.