MOSCOW. Sept 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov has pledged to prevent international terrorist attacks against Russia from Georgian territory.
"We must not allow any threats to the security of our country from the side of the Russian-Georgian border. We must prevent any possible attacks by rebels on Russian territory and work on their complete elimination if they happen to be on the territory of Georgia," Gryzlov told the press in Moscow on Thursday. as clear and unambiguous," the minister said. full of problems and tension," Gryzlov said. "We know that gangs of international terrorists have been moving from Georgia to Russia for several months, and that they are present in the Pankisi Gorge both to rest and to train. This is no secret," the minister remarked.
Representatives of Russian secret services informed the Georgian government and the press about that more than once, he noted.
"I think the entire world knows and understands this, yet the Georgian administration has tried to conceal the fact for months. Now it also has to admit that rebels are present on Georgian territory," Gryzlov said.
Attempts to establish cooperation between law-enforcement departments of the two countries in the solution to the Pankisi problem have failed through the fault of Tbilisi, he stressed. between departments," Gryzlov said.
He said he had agreed on joint searches in the Pankisi Gorge with the Georgian interior minister at a recent meeting in Baku. "Georgia made the promise. Yet we have not managed to organize