Georgia: NATO Warns Russia
The BBC reports that following an escalation in tensions between Georgia and Russia over Abkhazia, NATO has demanded that Moscow withdraw its troops, albeit unarmed, recently sent into the breakaway region ostensibly to repair a railway.
Nato’s secretary general has demanded that Russia withdraw troops it sent to the disputed breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia last week.
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer accused Russia of breaching Georgia’s sovereignty by sending in military railway personnel.
Mr de Hoop Scheffer said the Russian move was “contributing to instability in what is already a volatile area”.
Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in a war in the early 1990s after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
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