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Saturday, 12 June 2004
GEORGIAN OFFICIALS ACCUSE RUSSIA OF SENDING ARMOR TO SOUTH OSSETIA
By empty (6/12/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian parliament Defense and Security Committee Chairman Givi Targamadze and Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania both claimed on 12 June that Moscow dispatched a convoy of some 150 military vehicles transporting artillery, ammunition and 120 troops from North Ossetia to the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia during the night of 11-12 June. President Mikheil Saakashvili denounced that deployment on 12 June as an \"unfriendly act\" on Russia\'s part and said he plans to raise the issue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Saakashvili denied that any Georgian military intervention in South Ossetia is planned, stressing that \"we love the Ossetians and no one will prevent us from living together.
Georgian parliament Defense and Security Committee Chairman Givi Targamadze and Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania both claimed on 12 June that Moscow dispatched a convoy of some 150 military vehicles transporting artillery, ammunition and 120 troops from North Ossetia to the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia during the night of 11-12 June. President Mikheil Saakashvili denounced that deployment on 12 June as an \"unfriendly act\" on Russia\'s part and said he plans to raise the issue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Saakashvili denied that any Georgian military intervention in South Ossetia is planned, stressing that \"we love the Ossetians and no one will prevent us from living together.\" Saakashvili also said that Tbilisi will pay compensation to Ossetians whose property was destroyed during the fighting in 1990-92. (Caucasus Press)