TSKHINVALI, South Ossetia. Dec 27 (Interfax-AVN) - The Georgian leadership may send troops to breakaway South Ossetia "on the pretext of restoring order any time," president of the self-proclaimed republic Eduard Kokoity told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
"Lately, Tbilisi has been inflating the myth about growing crime in South Ossetia to impose the opinion that an anti- criminal operation is necessary," he said.
"These dangerous plans will trigger one more conflict in the Caucasus," he said.
South Ossetia "is forced to intensify the formation of a mobile professional army with 6,000 servicemen," Kokoity said.
The checkpoints recently set up near South Ossetia by the Georgian Interior Ministry on the pretext of restoring order on motorways "are, in fact, intended for provoking ethnic conflicts that may be used as a reason for large-scale military operations against the republic," the president said.
The Mixed Control Commission on the Georgian-Ossetian settlement will hold a session in Tskhinvali in January. The session will involve representatives of the Mixed Peacekeeping Forces that have operated in the conflict zone since 1992.
The commission includes presidential envoys of Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia's internal republic North Ossetia and the envoy of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The Mixed Peacekeeping Forces total about 1,000 servicemen.