By empty (7/8/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Moscow has expressed outrage over the fact that, despite Russia\'s demands, the Georgian authorities have still not returned the property of Russian peacekeepers seized by Georgian forces on Wednesday morning. \"Moscow is extremely worried by incoming reports that the Georgian authorities are not stopping their unlawful and provocative actions in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone,\" the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. \"There can be no doubt that the violent seizure of the military equipment was deliberately aimed at further exacerbating the situation in South Ossetia and undermining Russian-Georgian relations,\" it says.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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