News Digest
GEORGIA DECRIES ECONOMIC IMPACT OF CLOSED BORDER WITH RUSSIA
By empty (9/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The deputy chairwoman of the Georgian parliamentary Foreign Relations Committee, Salome Samadashvili, said on 30 September that the Russian closure of the Lars checkpoint on the Russian-Georgian border has inflicted serious damage on the Georgian economy. The economic losses from the closure are estimated at roughly 4 million laris ($2.2 million) and have led to a widening disruption in regional trade as the border crossing post is an important transshipment point facilitating trade and cargo shipments between Russia and Armenia.GEORGIA SETTING UP TWO ARMY GROUPS NEAR BORDER WITH S. OSSETIA
By empty (9/30/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia is setting up two army groups on the border with the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia as part of its plans to launch strikes at the republic from the direction of Znauri and Tskhinvali, South Ossetian Interior Minister Robert Guliyev told Interfax by phone on Thursday. \"By concentrating their forces in two directions - Tskhinvali and Znauri - the Georgian authorities are entrusting the task of surrounding Tskhinvali and closing the Trans-Caucasus highway to traffic traveling to [Russia\'s republic of] North Ossetia to these army groups. This will become possible as a result of two parallel strikes,\" Guliyev said.OPERATION AGAINST GUERRILLA LEADERS UNDERWAY IN CHECHNYA
By empty (9/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen Interior Ministry groups and units of the Chechen presidential security service resumed their operations near the village of Alleroi and Meskety in the early hours of Wednesday to search for guerrilla leaders, the republic\'s First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov told Interfax by telephone. \"Officers of the traffic police service\'s regiment, special operations police units and republican president\'s security service staged an ambush in a forest last night and continued to comb the area in the morning,\" said Kadyrov, who is overseeing the operation. (Interfax).CHECHEN TERRORISTS SHOULD BE ON U.N. BLACK LIST – RUSSIA
By empty (9/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Russia wants Chechen terrorists to be included in the U.N. Security Council black list of individuals and organizations involved in terrorism.Visit also
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