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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on 12 July before his departure on a three-day official visit to Great Britain that the mandate of the Russian peacekeeping forces deployed in the South Ossetian conflict zone should be changed because those forces openly side with the South Ossetian authorities. Saakashvili further accused Russian military intelligence of fuelling the conflict in South Ossetia, and he said that the Georgian government knows \"precisely\" who in Moscow is channeling weaponry to the breakaway republic. In 1993, the Georgian authorities produced a dossier detailing weapons transfers to Abkhazia organized by senior Russian military officials.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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