The U.N. refugee agency helped evacuate more than 700 Georgians from the Abkhazia region this week with the cooperation of the Russian and Georgian forces.
Residents of the remote Khodori Valley, in Georgia's pro-Russian breakaway region, were escorted to safety by U.N. refugee agency staffers, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.
"Most of these people are in good physical condition, but they have been traumatized and shocked by violent events unfolding over the past week, and they feared for their own safety. They asked us to help with the safe passage," said Srecko Neumann, head of UNHCR's office in Zugdidi. 
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