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Saturday, 30 September 2006

RUSSIA EVACUATES EMBASSY FROM GEORGIA

Published in News Digest

By empty (9/30/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russia will evacuate almost all the embassy personnel from Georgia to Moscow on Saturday. Only two diplomats and two embassy guards will remain in Georgia, senior diplomat of the Russian embassy in Georgia Ivan Volynkin told Tass. Ivan Volynkin temporarily heads the Russian embassy in Tbilisi in the absence of ambassador Vyacheslav Kovalenko, who was recalled to Moscow for consultations in connection with the aggravation of the Russo-Georgian relations.
Russia will evacuate almost all the embassy personnel from Georgia to Moscow on Saturday. Only two diplomats and two embassy guards will remain in Georgia, senior diplomat of the Russian embassy in Georgia Ivan Volynkin told Tass. Ivan Volynkin temporarily heads the Russian embassy in Tbilisi in the absence of ambassador Vyacheslav Kovalenko, who was recalled to Moscow for consultations in connection with the aggravation of the Russo-Georgian relations. A plane of the Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations is scheduled to arrive in Tbilisi at 2.00 p.m. Moscow time. The plane will take on board all the embassy personnel, except the two diplomats and two security guards. The plane is to leave Tbilisi after 4.00 p.m. Saturday, Volynkin said. These measures are taken in connection with a threat to security of Russian citizens posed as a result of an incident in which the Georgian authorities detained a group of Russian officers on insinuated charges of espionage. A large group of Russian citizens, mostly women and children, have already returned to Moscow. The evacuation will be continued on Saturday. Russian servicemen stationed in Batumi will evacuate by sea, Kovalenko said. The ambassador stressed that at the consultations in Moscow the question of his recall from Tbilisi would not be raised. (Itar-Tass)
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