Again, your staff sets about taking care of the details. The last question in your basic platform pertains to international commitments. Will you seek to join the World Trade Organization, IMF, and United Nations (so that you can receive aid from the World Bank)? Will you attempt to join a regional trade bloc with neighboring countries?
| Apply for membership in all three international institutions | Take steps to join a regional trade bloc. Development aid will be very helpful to your fragile economy, and a regional trade bloc could provide needed goods and capital without opening up your economy to global markets. Thus, you can receive many of the benefits of international money while still protecting Abkhazian companies. |
| Do not join any international institutions | For the time being, it is important to allow Abkhazia to develop independently. Perhaps once Abkhazia is a bit stronger, membership in regional and international institutions will be beneficial, but for the time being Abkhazia needs to focus internally. |