TBILISI. Aug 9 (Interfax-AVN) - A team of investigators from the Russian Prosecutor General's Office arrived in Tbilisi on Friday to press for the extradition of 13 Chechen rebels detained by Georgian border guards on the Chechen stretch of the Russian- Georgian border on August 3 and 4.
The investigators are now better prepared for discussing this issue than during the Tuesday visit by Russian Prosecutor General Vladimi Ustinov, Georgian National Security Council Secretary Tedo Dzhaparidze told the press. He did not know, however, whether the Russian team had brought documents with them to confirm the charges against the detainees.
Dzhaparidze said the Georgian Foreign Ministry had received notes from the Russian Foreign Ministry in relation to the rebels' detention.
A political dialogue is underway through diplomatic and other channels, but it will be "quite a lengthy, complicated and delicate procedure," he said.
The detained Chechens are sentenced to three months in pre- trial custody by a Tbilisi district court.