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Defense News - Georgia |
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 08:01 PM | |||
Georgian army builds fortifications and create ammunitions dumps near border of South Ossetia. | |||
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president of South Ossetia has told the international intermediaries that
the activity near his country’s border suggests that Georgia is
readying for a new war. Leonid Tibilov told the representatives of European
Union, OSCE and United Nations that South Ossetian intelligence possessed
serious information that the Georgian side was building fortifications
and creating ammunition dumps in the villages near the border between
the two countries. |
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Georgian soldiers walk on the road near Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, Georgia, 08 August 2008. (Archive image) |
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He
added that such events invoked thoughts that Georgia plans a military
action against the people of South Ossetia. The intermediaries’ visit to South Ossetian capital Tskhinval was held ahead of the so-called Geneva International Discussion on the Georgian Crisis – the multinational forum with the aim to improve the security and humanitarian conditions in the region. In August this year, Russian Foreign Ministry officials said that Georgian authorities were still considering using force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia – two breakaway states that were officially recognized independent by Russia and several other states after South Ossetia in 2008 repelled, with Russian help, the aggression of Georgia that sought to reclaim the republic as its territory. Russian diplomats pointed out that that official Tbilisi was inflating the fears about the threat from Russia ahead of October’s parliamentary vote. Russia
sees South Ossetia as its principal ally in the region and renders significant
help to the republic. This year Moscow allocated 9 billion rubles (US$298.8
million) for the restoration of South Ossetia, and another 8.5 billion
rubles ($282.2 million) will be provided to the republic by 2013. |
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