MOSCOW. July 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Abkhazia has voiced its concern at reports from its intelligence sources indicating that Georgia has started calling up reservists to military bases situated near to the border of the self-proclaimed republic.
"What we are concerned about most is not the situation in the Kodori Gorge itself, but that near the Gali district, because the Georgian security agencies have started calling up reservists, including former members of the terrorist group White Legion, to the military base in Senaki," Abkhaz presidential representative in the Gali district Ruslan Kishmaria told Interfax.
According to Abkhaz intelligence, artillery specialists are being called up to the Senaki base.
"If tensions in the Kodori Gorge rise, it looks as if Georgia might start a sabotage war in the Gali district as well," Kishmaria said.
Talking about the latest developments in the Kodori Gorge, Kishmaria suggested that "the matter is likely to come to a head today or tomorrow."
"According to our information, a convoy of Georgian security forces cannot enter the gorge, because [the leader of a rebel group in the Kodori Gorge] Emzar Kvitsiani has blown up the two bridges by which the gorge is accessed," he said.
Kishmaria confirmed that Kvitsiani's followers have come into armed clashes with Georgian government forces in the past twenty-four hours.