Moscow authorities intend to build tourist and sanatorium resorts in Jordan and Abkhazia, according to a statement made by the city Mayor Yuri Luzhkov at a session of the Moscow government on the 4th of December. He marked that the city owned property (including a number of sanatoriums) both in Russian regions and abroad.
      
      “We are talking about purchasing pieces of land in Jordan and Abkhazia and about building tourist and sanatorium resorts there”, Yuri Luzhkov said.
      
      On November 8, at the scientific conference “Russia and Abkhazia: toward a united economical space”, the Mayor of Moscow called the tourist potential of the Republic of Abkhazia strategic. He reminded that in the USSR times there were 130 sanatoriums in Abkhazia and now – only 50.
      
      Source: www.dailystroy.ru