Lithuania may take part in int’l monitoring of Georgia-RF border
09.04.2005, 20.49
TBILISI, April 9 (Itar-Tass) -- Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said Lithuania was ready to participate in the international monitoring of the Georgian-Russia border if such a decision were adopted.
“Next week a group of Lithuanian experts will arrive in Georgia to study the situation and the possibility for Lithuania’s participation in the monitoring of the Georgian-Russian border”, the minister said, referring to the Chechen, Ingush and Dagestan sections of the border.
She told journalists on Saturday, “The form of international monitoring on the Georgian-Russian border – whether it will be under the auspices of the European Union or by individual EU countries – has not been determined yet.”
Zurabishviil met with her Lithuanian counterpart Antanas Valionis to discuss “cooperation between Georgia and Lithuanian on questions of Georgia’s integration into the EU and NATO”.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) started monitoring the Chechen section of the Georgian-Russian border in 2000, and the Ingush and Dagestani sections in 2001-2002. This mission was stopped several months ago.
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