TBILISI. Sept 4 (Interfax-AVN) - Recent talks between Russian and Georgian military experts have established that the ammunition depot of the Russian Transcaucasian Force in the eastern Georgian settlement of Sagaredzho has to be eliminated before the end of the year, Colonel Alexander Lutskevich, chief of the Force's press center, told Interfax-Military News Agency Thursday.
"The terms are tight but we will do everything possible to meet the deadline," he said.
He also said that the depot in Sagarejo is already being liquidated.
"Most of munitions stored there have been either disposed of or withdrawn to the 102nd Russian base in Gyumri, Armenia," the officer said.
The Georgian Defense Ministry also admitted that there might be problems.
According to a high-ranking Georgian military, "this is primarily due to a necessity to clear mines from the territory surrounding the depot."
He said that the Russian force had mined the area in the early 1990s.
"Mine-clearing will be difficult because, even though the Russian military have minefield charts, the soil drifted for 10 years, and the reference points like bushes and trees may have been swept away," he added.