TBILISI. May 23 (Interfax-AVN) - A consulting center of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is to open in Tbilisi in the near future, a spokesman for the Georgian Defense Ministry told Interfax- Military News Agency on Thursday.
Problems related to opening the center were discussed at the meeting between Georgia's Defense Minister David Tevzadze and UNMAS consultant Akiko Ikeda.
The Mine Action Service center is to be engaged in search and mine-clearance operations in the zones of Georgian-Osetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts; it is also to provide medical aid to people injured in blasts of anti-personnel mines that have been left in the area after hostilities.
The UNMAS representative discussed corresponding problems with Georgia's Foreign Minister Irakly Menagarishvili.
Ikeda is to leave for Baku on Thursday night to check the operation of the similar center that has been working in Baku for several years.