TSKHINVALI. Jan 15 (Interfax-AVN) - The fate of Vice Colonel Zurab Durglishvili, serviceman of the Georgian battalion within the Mixed Peacekeeping Forces in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone who was kidnapped in August, will be discussed by the co- chairmen of the Mixed Control Commission at a session that is to take place here this month.
"The issue will be among the dominant ones at the session of the Mixed Control Commission, for an unprecedented kidnapping of a peacekeeper, the fate of a man is in question," the forces' chief-of-staff Colonel Gennady Seryshev told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday.
He said that "the search carried out by law-enforcement agencies has been futile so far, and there is no information on the fate of Zurab Durglishvili."
The Mixed Peacekeeping Forces consisting of a Russian, a Georgian and an Ossetian battalions have operated in the Georgian- Ossetian conflict zone since 1992. They number some 1,000 servicemen.
The kidnapped officer was an aide of the Georgian battalion's commander in charge of PR.