TBILISI. June 5 (Interfax-AVN) - Two of the four UN military observers taken hostage in the Kodori Gorge are citizens of Germany, a source in the Abkhaz Defense Ministry told Interfax on Thursday.
"They took representatives of the UN mission hostage, who had been patrolling the Kodori Gorge together with Russian peacekeepers. The hostages are two UN military observers, citizens of Germany, and a driver and a translator, who are citizens of Abkhazia," the source said.
Interfax has no official information about the citizenship of the hostages.
This morning, unidentified men took hostage a patrol made up of four representatives of the UN mission and two members of the collective peacekeeping force in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone near the Gentsvishi village in the upper part of the Kodori Gorge. The Russian servicemen were disarmed and released, but the UN representatives were led away into the forest.