TBILISI, Jan 18 (AFP) - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze will call for tougher action against Abkhaz separatists at a CIS summit opening in Moscow Friday, blaming them for trouble in the Caucasus including the current Chechen hostage crisis, his press service said. In a statement, Shevardnadze said the conflict in Abkhazia, which flared up into all-out war in 1992-1993, was the source of instability in the Caucasus region, including the Chechen hostage crises in Turkey and Pervomaiskaya in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan. "The disgraceful terrorist act in (the Turkish port) Trabzon, the tragedy in Chechnya, and the barbarous acts in (the southern Russian towns of) Budennovsk and Kizlyar, all begin in Abkhazia," the statement said. The raid on Kizlyar was similar to one carried out by Chechen rebels last June on Budennovsk. The Budennovsk raid was led by Shamil Basayev, who fought with other Chechens on the side of the Abkhaz separatists in the 1992-1993 war in which thousands died. Some 3,000 Russian peacekeepers guard the border of Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia, under a CIS mandate that ran out this year. Shevardnadze has said he will oppose the extension of the mandate unless the Russian troops are given a more active role in resettling refugees, mostly ethnic Georgians, who fled during the war that left the breakaway western region in the separatists' hands. Shevardnadze promised to reassert control over Abkhazia in 1996, whether through negotiations or force. Peace talks broke down at the end of last year. AFP /AA1234/181023 GMT JAN 96

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