ABOUT 400 GEORGIAN CHILDREN MOVED FROM GEORGIAN_OSSETIC CONFLICT ZONE
TO SAMTSKHE-JAVAKHK

AKHALKALAKI, August 20 (Noyan Tapan). Due to the tenseness of the
Georgian-Ossetic conflict and the resumtion of hostilities, Georgian
children were moved from the conflict zone and lodged in safer
locations. According to the A-Info Agency, about 400 children were
moved from the gorges of Great and Small Liakhvi to Samtskhe
-Javakhk. They were lodged in the rest houses of Borzhomi.

At the commission of Nikolos Nikolozashvili, Georgian President’s
Plenipotentiary in Samtskhve-Javakhk, with the purpose of taking care
of the children, the leaders of the regions, including the regions
populated by the Armenians, organized fund-raising. The leaders of the
regions pledged to obtain finance for the children from the
philanthropists or to allocate financing from the reserve funds of the
local budgets.