MFA of Georgia Prepared Documents Needed for CIS Peacekeepers’ Withdrawal

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia submitted to the Security Council all the documents necessary for the Russian peacekeepers’ withdrawal from the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

MFA spokesman Kakha Sikharulidze stated today that after the Security Council discusses the issue President Shevardnadze should make a final decision regarding the Russian Peacekeeping troops.

According to the resolution passed by the Georgian Parliament on October 12, further presence of the Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia is regarded as inappropriate. President Shevardnadze supported the resolution.

Russian peacekeeping forces are deployed across the boarder of Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia since the mid-1994, under auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).