Following today’s press statement from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation mentioning, among others, that “the Chief Military Observer of the Mission Major-General Khattak agreed that actions by the Russian side do not contradict basic agreements on the conduct of the peacekeeping operation”, UNOMIG clarifies that it has no authority to pronounce on the conformity between the CIS peacekeeping operation in the Zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict and CIS rules ...more Пресс Релиз МООННГ

Over the last several days Abkhaz and Georgian media reports have respectively claimed that a concentration of armed personnel and military hardware was taking place in the zone of conflict on the opposite side of the ceasefire line as well as in the Kodori Valley. These reports have prompted official statements both in Sukhumi and Tbilisi. In response to the developing situation, UNOMIG intensified its monitoring in all areas concerned but did not observe anything to substantiate reports of a build-up of forces on either side. The only sizable movement of armed personnel through the security zone observed by UNOMIG's military observers was a notified in advance rotation of Georgian MIA personnel to and from upper Kodori valley in the period 16 - 19 April. The Abkhaz side has been informed about this rotation by UNOMIG on 17 April ...more