18 August 2008, 12:58
Zaitsev: Georgia deliberately misled participants of negotiations on Abkhazia
On August 17, General Anatoly Zaitsev, commander of the Joint Staff of Armed Forces of Abkhazia, has stated that after liberation of the upper section of Kodori Gorge it became clear that Georgia was roughly breaking the Moscow ceasefire agreement and misinforming the parties in the negotiation process.
"In the Gorge we've found 127 and 82 mm mortars, 120 mm howitzers, "Grad" volley missile installations, 100 mm cannons, antiaircraft defence systems and more than a thousand foreign- and Soviet-made automatic weapons," General Zaitsev said.
According to General Sergey Chaban, Commander of the CIS Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, Russian peacekeepers have confiscated 16 motorboats of various purpose, 4 tanks, 4 armoured troop-carriers, a bridge-erecting installation, an armoured destroyer leader, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and an multi-purpose armoured tracked tower.
Besides, in one of Georgia's armed units Russian peacekeepers detected a military map of Abkhazia seizure and other warfare documents.
General Zaitsev has noted that "Tbilisi had all the time asserted that the Upper Kodori has no troops, military equipment and weapons." "The UN mission who was monitoring the upper section of Kodori Gorge was permanently assuring us that there were no troops or weapons," the General has emphasized.
