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RUSSIAN TROOPS ARRIVE IN ARMENIA
Regnum
Nov 16 2007
Russia
Troops from the 12th Russian military base withdrawn from Batumi,
Georgia, arrived to the 102nd military base in Gyumri, Armenia, at
about 06:00 a.m. today. After a customs check by Armenian customs
officers of the Russian troop train, passenger carriages with about
150 troops and their families were uncoupled from the train and sent
to Gyumri.
The last Russian troop train left Batumi in the night of November 14.
Withdrawal of the Russian troops form Georgia, which under the
Russian-Georgian agreement was supposed to be completed within 2008,
is finished ahead of the schedule.
Now, only peacekeepers in Abkhazia serving under the CIS mandate and
in South Ossetia serving as part of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces
with Georgia's participation are left in Georgia.
Regnum
Nov 16 2007
Russia
Troops from the 12th Russian military base withdrawn from Batumi,
Georgia, arrived to the 102nd military base in Gyumri, Armenia, at
about 06:00 a.m. today. After a customs check by Armenian customs
officers of the Russian troop train, passenger carriages with about
150 troops and their families were uncoupled from the train and sent
to Gyumri.
The last Russian troop train left Batumi in the night of November 14.
Withdrawal of the Russian troops form Georgia, which under the
Russian-Georgian agreement was supposed to be completed within 2008,
is finished ahead of the schedule.
Now, only peacekeepers in Abkhazia serving under the CIS mandate and
in South Ossetia serving as part of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces
with Georgia's participation are left in Georgia.