SUKHUMI. April 16 (Interfax-AVN)- Georgian military units are still deployed in the upper parts of the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia, Abkhaz Vice-President Valery Arshba said on Tuesday.
Commenting on reports about Georgian troops in the Kodori Gorge, Arshba said that "under a protocol of April 2, no armed people should be in the Kodori Gorge: neither militia nor border guards."
The Abkhaz vice-president said that "international terrorists who entered Abkhazia in autumn 2001 as part of Chechen rebel leader Ruslan Gelayev's group" are still in the Kodori Gorge.
"We preserve the right to take security measures in the republic," Arshba said.