TBILISI. Jan 11 (Interfax-AVN) - The Georgian Security Council is planning to discuss the mandate of the CIS Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the area of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict on Friday, the Georgian president's adviser on international law Levan Aleksidze told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Aleksidze said that the pull-out of the Russian peacekeepers from Abkhazia would surely add to the complexity of the situation there.
The adviser added that he did not rule out the possibility that the peacekeepers would not be able to remove all their hardware, in which case it would fall into the hands of the Sukhumi separatists.
The mandate of the Russian peacekeepers dispatched to the area of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in the summer of 1994 expired on December 31 2001.
In October last year the Georgian parliament adopted a resolution necessitating withdrawal of all the Russian peacekeeping detachments due to the escalation of the conflict in the Kodori Gorge. Despite the fact Georgia's president Eduard Shevardnadze who is now to determine the outcome of the peacekeeping operation in Abkhazia said he would not take hasty decisions on approving the resolution.