LAST ECHELON WITH RUSSIAN MATERIEL LEFT GEORGIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.09.2006 13:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The last echelon with materiel, being withdrawn
from Russian military bases in Georgia, left Tsalka station Tuesday,
reported Commander of the Group of Russian Troops in Transcaucasia
(GRTT), major general Andrey Popov.
Thus, Russia completed executing measures on withdrawal of equipment
and material means, planned for 2006 in accordance with the Agreement
between Russia and Georgia on the terms, order of temporary functioning
and withdrawal of Russian military bases and other military objects
of the GRTT.
"Plan of Withdrawal of Russian military bases from territory of
Georgia, formed for 2006, is fulfilled 100%. No failures are made in
time indicators or order of departure of equipment. All equipment and
reserves of material means, withdrawn from the territory of Georgia are
already in the military units in the territory of Russia and Armenia,"
Popov stated earlier in an interview with RIA Novosti.
In Popov’s words, after September 19 only mobile equipment will stay
in the 62nd military base in Akhalkalaki, which will ensure activities
of the military base up to the end of 2007 – the full closing of the
base, reports RIA Novosti.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
