Monday, 15 August 2005

RUSSIA TELLS GEORGIA TO RETURN CARGO SEIZED FROM PEACEKEEPERS

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By empty (8/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The Russian embassy in Tbilisi has described as a provocation the seizure of a cargo for Russian peacekeeping forces in the zones of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian- Ossetian conflicts. \"On August 12, Georgian officials stopped two trucks of the Collective Peacekeeping Force and the Joint Peacekeeping Force, carrying cargo for the peacekeeping battalions, despite the fact that both vehicles had signs identifying them as belonging to the peacekeeping battalions, as well as accompanying documents,\" The Russian embassy in Georgia said in a statement on Friday. \"This action violates existing agreements.
The Russian embassy in Tbilisi has described as a provocation the seizure of a cargo for Russian peacekeeping forces in the zones of the Georgian-Abkhazian and Georgian- Ossetian conflicts. \"On August 12, Georgian officials stopped two trucks of the Collective Peacekeeping Force and the Joint Peacekeeping Force, carrying cargo for the peacekeeping battalions, despite the fact that both vehicles had signs identifying them as belonging to the peacekeeping battalions, as well as accompanying documents,\" The Russian embassy in Georgia said in a statement on Friday. \"This action violates existing agreements. The Russian embassy demands that the cargo be returned, apologies presented and that provocations of this kind stop,\" the Russian embassy said. (Interfax)
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