GEORGIAN POLICE TRIED TO BAR MOVEMENT OF A GROUP OF RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS

Today near village Avnevi during shooting a programme on the 14th anniversary since the introduction of the joint peace keeping forces into the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, the Georgian police tried to block movement of the a group of Russian journalists that were escorted by Russian peace keeping battalion.
Commenting the incident, the Assistant JPKF Commander on mass media, Senior Lieutenant, Vladimir Ivanov noted that the peace keepers’ vehicles as well as the vehicles escorted by the JPKF personnel are not subject to search and inspection.
The measures taken by the Georgian police do not agree with the existing agreements.