Georgia threatens force against Russian peacekeepers Georgian authorities said they could treat Russian peacekeepers as occupation troops and take measures, including the use of force, to drive them out of the country, Givi Targamadze, the head of the parliamentary defense committee, told Rustavi-2 television channel, Echo of Moscow reported.
This would only happen if Georgia’s authorities decide that Russian peacekeepers must withdraw from the Tskhinval region and they disobey, Targamadze stressed.
Russian-Georgian relations took a turn for the worse last week, with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili issuing a decree on Georgia’s withdrawal from the CIS Council of Defense Ministers. The Georgian Interior Ministry said the country was preparing to join NATO, and it could not be a member of two different defense organizations.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov responded by saying that the security of the Commonwealth of Independent States would not be affected by Georgia’s pullout.
Georgian authorities also accused Russia and South Ossetia of involvement in the preparation of an alleged terrorist attack on Mikhail Saakashvili. Georgian officials said they found an Igla portable missile system within range of Saakashvili’s helicopter flights. They said the system had been destroyed because it was difficult to transport. For some reason Georgians did not invite peacekeepers to visit the site.
South Ossetia’s administration called this incident a spectacle orchestrated by Georgia.
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