Tbilisi – The Georgian administration expressed concerns for its safety as Russia has made a decision to send additional peacekeeping troops off to the borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after Georgia began increasing its military instruments there.
While the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a written statement that Russia’s decision to send additional troops constituted a threat of attack, Givri Tardamadze, who chairs the Georgian Parliament’s Committee of Defense, expressed a resolved will to answer back if it comes out.
"Russia’s decision cannot be tolerated, because it cannot increase its military presence there," said the spokesman for Georgia’s Interior Ministry, and argued that Georgia did not possess any military instruments on its side: "It is not Georgia but Russia that is acting provocatively, because it deploys additional troops."
While Russian sources say that a group of 1500 Georgian troops and police officers are deployed in upper Kodor, which is not under the control of Abkhazia, the Abkhazian administration has argued that the Georgian army installed there eight rocket missiles, along with the additional troops. (Agency Caucasus)
