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More than 5,000 labour migrants in Abkhazia

Monday, December 12
The immigration service of the de facto Abkhazian government started functioning in April 2011. So far it has registered more than 5,000 people as immigrants into Abkhazia who have arrived in the region from Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Cameroon, Armenia, Congo, China and so on. A total of 216 migrants were deported from Abkhazia for healthcare reasons, out of these 16 were Georgian citizens.