RUSSIA CONTINUES WITHDRAWAL OF AMMUNITION FROM GEORGIA
ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
June 7, 2007 Thursday 05:53 AM EST
Russia is continuing the withdrawal of military hardware from
Georgia. On Thursday a train loaded with weapons and ammunition
belonging to the 12th Russia base stationed in Batumi left Georgia
for Russia, a representative of the press and information department
of Russian Land Troops Colonel German Zhitenev told Tass. The train
includes 35 platforms and rail cars that carry five armored tanks,
forty-four pieces of motorized hardware and other military property.
This year thirteen trains and a truck convoy are to deliver ammunition
withdrawn from the 12th Batumi base and the 62nd Russian base in
Akhalkalaki to the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri (Armenia).
In accordance with Russo-Georgian agreements, the 62nd military base
in Akhalkalaki should be shut down by the end of 2007, and the 12th
base stationed on Batumi is to be closed during 2008, Zhitenev said.