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JOINT PATROL OF KODORI FAILS TO LOCATE EITHER GEORGIAN OR CHECHEN FORCES
June 7, 2002
RFE/RL Transcaucasia

Written by LF

Five members each of the Russian peacekeeping force deployed under the CIS aegis in the Abkhaz conflict zone and the UN Observer Mission in Georgia conducted a further patrol of the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia on 3-5 June, Caucasus Press and Interfax reported. They found no sign of the presence there either of Georgian Army troops or Chechen militants. On 30 May, Interfax quoted unidentified sources in Sukhum as claiming that a band of 40 Chechens had entered the gorge
 
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