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THREE AZERIS CAUGHT
[01:32 pm] 15 February, 2007

Armenian Border Guard caught three Azeris having
Georgian citizenship. They were trying to pass the
Armenian-Georgian borderline to realize deforesting.

Two of the arrestees are currently in Yerevan.

Namik Aleyev, the ambassador of Azerbaijan to Georgia,
informed `Trend Agency’ that the arrestees will be set
free in case each of them pays 2 000 USD penalty.

The frontiers caught the third Azeri in the neutral
zone between the Armenian-Georgian borderline the
boundaries of which are not decided by the two sides
yet.

The third arrestee was also heading to Armenia after
timber. Lieutenant General Badri Bitsadze, the Head of
the Georgian Interior Ministry’s Department of
Frontier Defense, deals with his arrest; he has
already held meetings in this connection.