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http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1032169591,9605, Civil Georgia September 16, 2002 Tbilisi Sets Ultimatum to Russian Soldiers in Georgia (Tbilisi, September 16, Civil Georgia) - Georgian State Security Ministry detained one officer and four servicemen of the Russian peacekeeping troops, deployed in Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone on September 15, Security Ministry reports. Russian soldiers were detained in Tbilisi, Georgian capital. Nika Laliashvili, Spokesman of the State Security Ministry told the Civil Georgia on September 16, that Russia soldiers deployed in Georgia have no legal right for movement without of Georgian authorities’ permit. “In case the Russian military leadership does not solve the problem of illegal movement of their soldiers in Georgia within the two weeks, Georgian law enforcers will start arrests of every Russian soldier violating the rule,” Nika Laliashvili told the Civil Georgia. According to the State Security official facts of violations of movement across Georgia become very frequent recently. Nika Laliashvili said that 5 detained Russian soldiers are released after the request of Russian military leadership in Georgia, “but from now on we will act in the strictest manner in case of violations,” Laliashvili added. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1032177310,55606, Civil Georgia September 16, 2002 US Military Instructors Observe Operation in Pankisi (Tbilisi, September 16, Civil Georgia) - Georgian President Shevardnadze stated at the news briefing today that the US military instructors “are in Pankisi gorge observing the on-going anti-criminal operation there.” “We are greatly interested in cooperation with the United States, Washington is also interested in squeezing terrorist out of the gorge,” Eduard Shevardnadze said. Georgian law enforcers carry out anti-criminal operation in Pankisi gorge since August 25. President expressed hope today that the operation will be successfully accomplished within two-three weeks. ------------------------------------------------------- http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2720285&startrow=1&date=2002-09-16&do_alert=0 RUSSIA, ABKHAZIA CALL GEORGIA TO LOCK FRONTIER TO CHECHEN MILITANTS MOSCOW, September 16. /RIA Novosti /- Georgia must pull out its troops from the Kodor Gorge down to the last soldier, and stop gang and terrorist penetration of the area from the Pankisi Gorge, said Valeri Loschinin, Russian presidential envoy for Georgian-Abkhaz settlement, and Henri Jerghenia, Abkhaz Prime Minister. They held conference today in Sukhumi, capital of the unrecognised Republic of Abkhazia, reports the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs press and information department. The conferees had a detailed opinion exchange on developments in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone. Mr. Jerghenia made an alarmed reference to the situation in the Kodor Gorge upper reaches coming to an edge once again. Danger persists since October last, when warlord Ruslan Ghelayev's men raided Abkhazia, to badly upset Georgian-Abkhaz relations, he said. The Premier mentioned recent Abkhaz reports of ever more Chechen militants penetrating Kodor from Pankisi to prove that Tbilisi is not complying with its pledges on the Kodor Gorge-and, for that matter, with basic Georgian-Abkhaz understandings. Nevertheless, Georgia is making ungrounded claims on Abkhaz authorities, he complained. Georgia has a similar bias in its relations with Russia and other CIS countries, Russia's Foreign Ministry stresses in its statement. It is Georgia's duty to implement its promises, emphasised the Sukhumi conferees in the context of dangerous developments in and round the Kodor Gorge. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1032158409,44817, Civil Georgia September 16, 2002 Georgian President Is Thankful to George W. Bush (Tbilisi, September 16, Civil Georgia) - "I want to thank President of the United States, as well as the State Department, European Union and those countries, which appreciably supported Georgia in time of trouble", President Shevardnadze stated today in his traditional Monday radio interview. "We are able to solve the problem on our own", said Shevardnadze referring to the matter of troubled Pankisi gorge. US President Georgia W. Bush commented on Russian President Putin's statement on September 14 and pointed out that Georgians should be allowed to do their job on their own and crack down on terrorist hiding in Pankisi gorge. "I have told Vladimir Putin [Russian President] that they must give the Georgians a chance to achieve a common objective -- an objective that's important for Georgia, an objective that's important for Russia, an objective that's important for the United States -- and that is to get the al Qaeda killers and bring them to justice," US President George W. Bush stated on September 14. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
