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Russia,Georgia to sign temporary agrmt on Russian military facilitie

Russia,Georgia to sign temporary agt on Russian military facilities
by Eka Mekhuzla

ITAR-TASS News Agency
March 30, 2006 Thursday 08:15 PM EST

Russia and Georgia on Friday will sign an agreement in Sochi on the
terms and rules of temporary operation of Russian troops in Georgian
territory, including the military bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki
and other facilities, the Georgian Defense Ministry has told Itar-Tass.

Defense Minister Mamuka Kudava will sign the agreement for Georgia.

Another document to be signed in Sochi will concern the transit of
Russian military cargoes and personnel through Georgia.

Under the agreement Georgian and Russian foreign ministers achieved
on May 30, 2005 the Russian military bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki
are to be withdrawn over a period of 3.5 years (by the end of 2008).

Last summer saw the first phase of the withdrawal of heavy equipment
and armaments and motor transport. Most of the hardware was taken to
Russia (by land or by sea), and some pieces of equipment redeployed
to the Russian military base in Gyumri in neighboring Armenia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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