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