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09:25 GMT, Oct 30, 2007

Peacekeepers disarm some Georgian soldiers in

Georgian-Abkhaz conflictzone (Part 2)

MOSCOW. Oct 30 (Interfax-AVN) - A patrol of Russian peacekeepers

disarmed a group of Georgian soldiers in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict

zone on Tuesday.

"A group of Georgian soldiers who threatened to use arms against

peacekeepers was disarmed and detained," Joint Peacekeeping Forces

spokesman Alexander Diordiyev told Interfax-AVN told Interfax on

Tuesday.

The peacekeeping patrol led by commander of the 527th Separate

Infantry Battalion Lieut. Col. Sergei Yenin was ordered to patrol the

security zone in the Gali district of Abkhazia and the adjacent part of

Georgia's Zugdidi region, Diordiyev said.

"The peacekeepers were monitoring the situation in the region and

the implementation of the 1994 Moscow agreement on the ceasefire and the

detachment of forces. In addition, a doctor of the peacekeeping

battalion was monitoring the pig epizootic, sanitary conditions on the

Black Sea coast and the Inguri River along the patrol's route,"

Diordiyev said.

The peacekeepers stopped not far from the mouth of the Inguri River

to examine whether dead domestic animals were on the Black Sea coast and

the adjacent territory, as is stipulated in a plan to prevent the

proliferation of the "African plaque." A representative of the Georgian

Interior Ministry approached the peacekeepers. He did not introduce

himself and began threatening to burn the peacekeepers' armored vehicle

and shoot the peacekeepers.

"The Georgian representative was informed that the peacekeeping

patrol is on a planned monitoring mission, and that his statements and

actions impeded the fulfillment of the mission. When the Georgian

attempted to use force against the patrol commander, the peacekeepers

took measures to protect their commander. The representative of the

Georgian Interior Ministry and the Georgian soldiers who accompanied him

were detained," Diordiyev said.

The Georgians are being identified, he said, adding that after the

circumstances of the incident are examined, they will be turned over to

representatives of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG).

According to Georgian media reports, Russian peacekeepers detained

three Georgian soldiers. Residents of the village of Ganmukhuri, where

the incident took place, said that the peacekeepers forced the Georgians

into an armored vehicle and left the village.

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