TRAIN CARRYING RUSSIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEAVES GEORGIA’S ADJARIA
RIA Novosti, Russia
June 22 2006
TBILISI, June 22 (RIA Novosti) – A fifth train with Russian military
equipment has left the northwestern Georgian region of Adjaria for
Armenia, the Georgian defense ministry said Thursday.
Under an agreement Russia and Georgia signed March 31, Russian
troops and hardware are to leave Georgia’s two Soviet-era bases in
Akhalkalaki and Batumi by 2008. The withdrawal is being monitored by
a joint Georgian-Russian commission set up under the March agreement.
The bulk of Russia’s weapons will return to Russia and the rest of
it will be delivered to a Russian base in Armenia.