Lara Olson was Project coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Georgia (1996–98), managing repatriation and assistance efforts in South Ossetia and co-ordinating the Georgian-Ossetian Dialogue Project with the Conflict Management Group.

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Accord Issue 7: Georgia-Abkhazia

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