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http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2756676&startrow=1&date=2002-09-30&do_alert=0 GEORGIA GROSSLY VIOLATES AGREEMENTS WITH RUSSIA TBILISI, September 30, 2002. /From a RIA Novosti correspondent/ The Russian troops commander in Transcaucasia Nikolai Zolotov has called the actions of the Georgian authorities that detained the motorocade belonging to the Group of Russian troops in Transcaucasia near Kutaisi on Monday unlawful. The top officers of the Georgian Defence Ministry were informed in advance about the movement of a convoy including six cars and a bus, he said to RIA Novosti. The military commandant's officers of the Georgian Defence Ministry detained the convoy with 23 officers, heading from Tbilisi to Batumi, he reported. Neither Georgia's Defence Ministry nor National Security Ministry has any complaints against the group of Russian troops. However, the top officers of the Georgian Defence Ministry "keep silent", stressed the Russian troops commander in Transcaucasia. ------------------------------------------------------- http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=2756241&startrow=21&date=2002-09-30&do_alert=0 SOUTH OSSETIAN PRESIDENT: GEORGIA DISCREDITED ITSELF THROUGH DEAL WITH INTERNATIONAL TERRORISTS -"Tbilisi was trying to use international terrorists in its own interests." MOSCOW, September 30th, 2002. /From a RIA Novosti correspondent/. - South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity (South Ossetia is a break-away Georgian republic) told RIA Novosti via telephone that "Georgia had discredited itself through a deal with international terrorists." He regarded Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze's statements as an evident threat to use force against South Ossetia. According to the statements, a possibility exists that Georgia may conduct an anti-criminal operation in the Tskhinvali Region that will be very similar to the one in the Pankisi Gorge. Mr. Kokoity said that "Tbilisi was trying to use international terrorists in its own interests." However, he stressed that the situation was under control of the South Ossetian secret and power services and they would not admit international terrorists on South Ossetian territory. "We will take decisions on our own what countries to cooperate with in case the situation aggravates," Eduard Kokoity said. Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze announced at a Monday press conference in Tbilisi that the Georgian authorities would take decisions to conduct anti-criminal operations in different parts of Georgia. "If the situation is intense in the Tskhinvali or Gori Regions (not far from South Ossetia) we will combine efforts of Georgian law enforcement and power bodies and use experience received in the Pankisi Gorge," the Georgian President said. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gazeta.ru/intnews.shtml?203911#203911 Gazeta.ru October 1, 2002 NATO envoys visit Pankisi gorge A group of Georgian MPs and representatives of the NATO parliamentary assembly visited the Pankisi Gorge Monday close to the Chechen strip of the Russian-Georgian border. This trip was organized by Georgia with the purpose of demonstrating that the Pankisi gorge is free of Chechen separatists who are believed to have quit the area in advance and moved closer to the Russian border. One of the gangs, led by Abu Malik and Gelayev, with foreign mercenaries in its ranks, penetrated Ingushetia from the Pankisi gorge, testified Chechen fighters taken prisoner outside the Galashki village. The parliamentary group who followed the route pre-set in Tbilisi included Georgian Speaker Nino Burdjanadze and NATO parliamentary assembly secretary-general Simon Lunn. Asked by reporters about Russian-Georgian relations, Simon Lunn expressed hopes the two countries would come to terms. //RIA-Novosti ------------------------------------------------------- http://top.rbc.ru/english/index.shtml?/news/english/2002/09/30/30122756_bod.shtml RBC.Ru October 1, 2002 Chechen militants: Georgia is powerless Georgia had not carried out any actions against the band of Ruslan Gelayev in its territory, an official statement issued by the Regional Staff directing the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus today reads. Militants detained near the Ingush village of Galashki have confirmed this information. A representative of the Regional Staff declared that during the "operation in the Pankisi gorge," militants had temporarily left the gorge and moved to the mountainous areas adjacent to the Georgian-Russian border in accordance with a prior agreement between Georgian officials and bandit leaders. According to the detainees, before the beginning of the "anti-criminal operation," a small group of rebels left the Pankisi gorge and moved to Azerbaijan and Turkey with their families. It was planned that after the end of the "anti-criminal operation," the militants would return to their bases in the gorge. "Despite the fact that the Georgian authorities are trying to portray the invasion of the territory of the Russian Federation by a band of international terrorists as a success of their sham "anti-criminal operation," most of the extremists were reluctant to leave a convenient bridgehead for the preparation of terrorist acts in the territory of the Chechen Republic, and they are still in Georgia," the official statement by the Regional Staff declares. ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.gazeta.ru/intnews.shtml?203911#203911 Gazeta.ru October 1, 2002 Russian border guards maintain terrorists are still in Pankisi Gorge -"No one has counted their number, but judging by all accounts, there are several hundred rebels and mercenaries in the Pankisi Gorge." The Russian Federal Border Service has obtained information suggesting that several hundred Chechen rebels and foreign mercenaries are operating in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge. "A great number of small and large rebel groups are still based in Pankisi Gorge. No one has counted their number, but judging by all accounts, there are several hundred rebels and mercenaries in the Pankisi Gorge," Chief of the Headquarters of the Federal Border Service's North Caucasus Regional Department Valery Putov reported on Monday. He said that survivors of the rebel group, destroyed in Ingushetia, will most probably try to cross back into Georgia. "The 58th army eliminated this rebel group in the Ingush village of Galashki, and survivors will most probably run back to the Pankisi Gorge. We are preparing ourselves for this," Putov said. //Interfax -------------------------------------------------------http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/georgia/hypermail/news/0076.shtml Eurasianet September 30, 2002 ADJAR LEADER DENIES HE IS PREPARING COUP. Speaking on Adjar State Television on 30 September, State Council Chairman Aslan Abashidze denied that he and former Georgian intelligence chief Igor Giorgadze are plotting a coup d'etat in Georgia, Caucasus Press reported. On 27 September, the first channel of Georgian state television broadcast what it said was a transcript of a telephone conversation in which Giorgadze, who fled Georgia in 1995, discussed the coup plans with an unknown person in Georgia. A photo of Abashidze was superimposed during the broadcast of that transcript. Abashidze threatened unspecified action against the Georgian leadership. LF __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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