TBILISI. Jan 21 (Interfax-AVN) - The Georgian authorities insist that international monitoring of the country's border with Russia be continued.
"Georgia will do everything it can to maintain international monitoring of its border with Russia and will not allow these areas to remain unmonitored," Deputy Foreign Minister Giorgi Gomiashvili said at a briefing on Thursday.
His comments came in response to remarks made on Thursday at an OSCE Permanent Council meeting by Russian representatives about the need to end the monitoring which Russia considers ineffective.
The OSCE gave its observers 20 weeks to complete the monitoring of the Chechen, Ingush, and Dagestani sections of the border, Gomiashvili said. Monitoring of the border began in 2000.