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Tuesday, 26 April 2005
GEORGIAN BORDER GUARDS FIND MINES ON BORDER WITH TURKEY
By empty (4/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian border guards found 12 anti-personnel mines dating from Soviet times on the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the Georgian Border Service told Interfax on Tuesday. \"It was common practice in Soviet times to plant mines along the border to prevent border violations, but Russian frontier guards should have left their Georgian colleagues mine maps, something they failed to do. Today we face the threat of potential mine explosions because we don\'t know where these mines are located,\" the spokesman said.
Georgian border guards found 12 anti-personnel mines dating from Soviet times on the border with Turkey, a spokesman for the Georgian Border Service told Interfax on Tuesday. \"It was common practice in Soviet times to plant mines along the border to prevent border violations, but Russian frontier guards should have left their Georgian colleagues mine maps, something they failed to do. Today we face the threat of potential mine explosions because we don\'t know where these mines are located,\" the spokesman said. (Interfax)