ANOTHER TRAIN WITH COMBAT MATERIEL LEAVES GEORGIA FOR RUSSIA
Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
June 6, 2006 Tuesday
Another train, carrying Russian arms and materiel being withdrawn
from Georgia, left the Georgian Tsalka railway station on Tuesday,
Deputy Commander of the Russian Task Force in Transcaucasia Colonel
Vladimir Kuparadze told Interfax-Military News Agency.
“The train, carrying ten T-72 MBTs, spare parts and other equipment,
belonging to the Russian 62nd military base, deployed in Akhalkalaki,
went through the customs on Monday, and left for Russia at 9 a.m.
Moscow time (0500 hours GMT) on Tuesday,” Kuparadze said.
“The train will go through Azerbaijan, which has signed an agreement
on transits of Russian military cargo with Russia,” he added.
Kuparadze said that it was the sixth train, loaded with military
hardware, to leave Georgia. Three other trains, carrying hardware of
the 62nd base left for Russia earlier, and two more trains, loaded
with materiel of the 12th base, left Batumi for Armenia to equip the
Russian 102nd base.
He also pointed out that a convoy of 20 wheeled vehicles would leave
Akhalkalaki for Armenian Gyumri on Thursday to equip the 102nd base.
“In addition to that, 40 other wheeled vehicles would be sent to
Gyumri from Batumi by train,” Kuparadze said.
Russian military bases are to be withdrawn from Georgia by 2008.