MOSCOW. Nov 18 (Interfax-AVN) - While making a working visit to South Ossetia and the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, Russian Land Forces deputy commander in charge of peacekeeping forces Lieutenant General Valery Yevnevich will finalize plans of Russian peacekeeping units' rotation for 2003.
"Within six days I will visit Tbilisi, the headquarters of the Mixed Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, as well as headquarters of the CIS Collective Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone in Sukhumi, Abkhazia," Yevnevich told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
The main aim of the visit "is to provide aid to the commands of Russian military contingents that accomplish peacekeeping tasks in South Ossetia and the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone as well as to finalize the plan of the Russian peacekeeping units' rotation for 2003," Yevnevich said.
"I will hear commander of the forces in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone Major General Alexander Yevteyev and commander of the forces in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone Major General Vasily Prizemlin, as well as their deputies on logistics support and armament, reporting on the accomplishment of tasks in areas of responsibility and the entire spectrum of problems our units in Abkhazia and South Ossetia face," Yevnevich stressed.
According to him, arrears in daily allowances to servicemen in U.S. dollars is among these problems. "Arrears in such payments to peacekeepers in Abkhazia and South Ossetia is growing every months by dozens of millions of rubles, and we cannot pay it back. We will be finding out how to make it," Yevnevich added.