TBILISI PROTESTS RUSSIAN BORDER POST MOVE.

In separate statements issued on November 21, Georgia’s foreign minister Irakli Menagarishvili, deputy foreign minister Malkhaz Kakabadze, and border troops’ commander Maj. Gen. Valery Chkheidze, protested the recent move of a Russian border post 1,300 meters inside territory that Georgia considers its own. The post stands on the vital Georgia Military Highway. The sides had earlier agreed to refrain from any unilateral moves pending final demarcation of the border in that sector. (Russian agencies, November 21)

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