GEORGIAN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS
By empty (9/12/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze chaired a four-hour meeting of the National Security Council on 12 September to discuss how to respond to President Putin's threat of military intervention. Defense Minister Lieutenant General David Tevzadze told parliament after the meeting that specific diplomatic and domestic political measures were agreed on during the session, but did not enumerate them. Also on 12 September, the commander of the Interior Ministry Forces, Major General Giorgi Shervashidze, said that no changes will be made to the ongoing anticrime and antiterrorism operation in the Pankisi Gorge.Visit also
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