TSKHINVALI. Aug 1 (Interfax) - South Ossetia intends to raise the issue of the developments at Sachkheri military base in Georgia at the upcoming round of the Geneva discussions, Envoy of the South Ossetian President for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiyev has told Interfax.
Mountain rifle units of several NATO countries will soon be actually deployed at the base located near the South Ossetian border, he said.
The military base in Sachkheri has been included in the Partnership for Peace program, which gives it the right to train NATO military according to the alliance's standards, he said.
The training of mountain rifle units is expected to begin at the base in September. Training will be given to army formations from Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and some other countries, Chochiyev said.
This alarms South Ossetia, he said.
"The growing number of flights of reconnaissance drones over South Ossetian territory is another alarming symptom. Suffice it to say that in recent times Georgian drones violated the air space of our republic 14 times," he said.
"In addition, various exercises and joint events of NATO and Georgia are held one after the other in Georgia. All this is interconnected. These are parts of one chain. Their main objective is prepare another aggression," he said.