EU peacekeepers for Georgia a non-starter?
ITAR-TASS on 4 February quoted an
EU official as saying Georgia has not addressed any request to the EU to
provide troops from its embryonic Rapid Reaction Force to replace the CIS
peacekeepers currently deployed in the Abkhaz conflict zone. Interfax similarly
quoted Georgian presidential adviser Levan Aleksidze as saying the use
of the EU force in Abkhazia is out of the question. Aleksidze also expressed
doubt that the EU would intervene in the Abkhaz conflict, given that Georgia
is not an EU member. Shevardnadze mentioned the possibility of an EU force
for Abkhazia at a press conference in Tbilisi on 3 February. LF
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