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http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2739922&startrow=1&date=2002-09-23&do_alert=0 GEORGIA TO APPLY FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP AT ALLIANCE'S PRAGUE SUMMIT TBILISI, SEPTEMBER 23 /from RIA Novosti's Yelena Imedashvili/ - Georgia is expected to apply for the NATO membership at the summit the alliance is due to hold in Prague, the Czech Republic, late this year, Irakly Menagarishvili, Georgia's foreign minister, told a news conference in Tbilisi Monday. An ad hoc commission, which has been instructed to draft a project of Georgia's integration in NATO, is to submit a related report to the republican president this next October, according to Mr Menagarishvili. "A decision as to in what form and phase Georgia is ready to join the alliance as of today will be taken then, something the Prague summit will be informed of," said the foreign minister. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1032852089,48299, Civil Georgia September 24, 2002 Armed Clash at Georgian-Russian Border (Tbilisi, Civil Georgia, September 24, 2002) - According to the Civil Georgia sources at the Georgian Border Guard Department armed clash occurred near Kazbegi, northern mountainous region of Georgia, near Georgian-Russian border, on September 24. According to the source one Georgian border guard is wounded. The Border Guard Department refuses to make an official statement concerning the incident. Authorities also refrain to say who attacked the Georgian border guards near Georgian-Russian border. Shalva Londaridze, Press Secretary of the Border Guard Department told the Civil Georgia that Korneli Salia, Acting Chief of the Border Guard Department Staff left for Kazbegi. �At the moment we examine the details and after we will release an official statement,� Londaridze said. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gazeta.ru/intnews.shtml?202241#202241 Gazeta.ru September 24, 2002 Rebels, terrorists left Pankisi in line with understanding with Georgia Chechen rebels and international terrorists have left the Pankisi Gorge in line with an understanding that they had with Georgian authorities, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov told a news conference in Madrid on Monday. "Rebels and international terrorists staying in Georgia maintain contacts with the country's authorities. The bands retreated from the Pankisi gorge in compliance with an understanding," he said. "It was as easy as that," Ivanov said. Commenting on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze's proposal that Russian military inspectors be sent to the Gorge, he said, "What we want Georgia to do is to follow up on its commitment to fight terrorism as required by UN Security Council resolution No. 1273." "Give us guarantees that we will not be attacked, like we have been for years," Ivanov said. "Our cooperation with Georgia boils down to a single formula � by whom, where and when will the terrorists be destroyed?" he said. "Russia does not infringe on Georgia's sovereignty or oppose Georgia's entry of any international organization or construction of gas pipelines in Georgia," Ivanov said. "We love the Georgian people and expect love in return. If we did not, hundreds of thousands Georgians would not be living in Russia today," he said. //Interfax ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.civil.ge/cgi-bin/newspro/fullnews.cgi?newsid1032848034,98659, Civil Georgia September 24, 2002 US to Assist Georgia in Abkhazian Conflict Resolution (Tbilisi, Civil Georgia, September 24, 2002) - Georgian Foreign Affairs Minister Irakli Menagharishvili stated at the news briefing on September 23 that the issue of participation of the United States in the Abkhazian conflict resolution was discussed together with other problems during his visit to the US. �It is not decided yet in which way the US will be involved in the conflict resolution, but we had an intense talks with our American counterparts concerning the issue,� Irakli Menagharishvili said. Georgian Foreign Minister expressed regret that the Russian side, which is involved in the conflict resolution, supports Abkhaz separatists and hinders settlement of the conflict. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2002/09/2-TCA/tca-230902.asp GEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ACCUSES UN OF BEING 'SOFT' ON ABKHAZIA In his 19 September speech to the UN General Assembly, Irakli Menagharishvili criticized the most recent UN Security Council resolution on Abkhazia as being too soft in its condemnation of Abkhazia's refusal to discuss a UN-drafted document on the relation between Abkhazia and the central Georgian authorities within a single Georgian state, Caucasus Press reported on 20 September. He called on the international community to condemn Abkhazia for failing to begin the teaching of Georgian in schools in Gali Raion, and criticized the Russian peacekeepers deployed under the CIS aegis in the Abkhaz conflict zone for allegedly failing to fulfill their mandate. LF __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] 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 ==^================================================================
