Slovenia welcomes Georgia’s new peace initiative aimed at improving the lives of people in Abkhazia and “South Ossetia,” says the statement released by Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“Slovenia welcomes the new peace initiative of Georgia aimed at improving lives of people in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. We see it as an important step in Georgia´s endeavours for a dialogue and a peaceful resolution of the conflict,” Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tweeted.

The government of Georgia has approved a new peace initiative – a Step to a Better Future, involving three main directions: encourage, expand and simplify trade across dividing lines through creating new opportunities; create additional opportunities for quality education and simplify access to all levels of education both internally and internationally; ease an access of the population of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia to various services and benefits, including an introduction of a status-neutral mechanism of identification with a personal number for the residents of the two regions that does not relate to citizenship but enables to access a range of various services.