TBILISI. July 22 (Interfax-AVN) - Georgian border guards are not going to leave the Kodori gorge of the breakaway Abkhaz region, Shalva Londaridze, chief of the Georgian State Border Guard Department press service, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
"Border guards are not regular army units, that is why we can say that the Georgian party meets international obligations not to station Defense Ministry units in the gorge," Londaridze said commenting on the discussion of the situation in the Georgian- Abkhaz conflict zone that is to take place at the next UN Security Council session on July 31.
He stressed that the Georgian border guards "have had a full- scale commandant's office in the Kodori gorge already for several years."
The border guard contingent in the Kodori gorge mainly consists of local residents that are trained by instructors of the State Border Guard Department.
The upper part of the Kodori gorge is the only Abkhaz area controlled by the Georgian party after the end of the Georgian- Abkhaz conflict of 1992-1993.