The United States and the European Union have said they do not recognize the legitimacy of March 4 parliamentary elections in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region.

Officials in Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region have announced the first preliminary results from the March 4 legislative elections.

The new head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says he "does not exclude" the possibility of resolving in 2007 some of the frozen conflicts in the former Soviet Union.

A Georgian police officer was reported killed and another injured early today in a clash in western Georgia near the border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia.