Beslan Arshba: EU military observers try to get into the territory of Gali District in Abkhazia

Nobody has ever let the observers of the European Union to the territory of Abkhazia, since they did not apply to the authorities for the permit; and there is no need for them to stay in the Gali District of Abkhazia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Beslan Arshba, head of the administration of the Gali District, who made his comments on the information of the Georgian Agency "Interpressnews" that "today the EU observers have for the first time entered the Gali District of Abkhazia, where they got acquainted with the situation in Pichora and Chuburkhindz villages."

According to Beslan Arshba, one cannot exclude that the EU observers, having crossed the border in an unidentified place, met several local residents. "Yesterday, such attempt was prevented. In Nabakevi village, Abkhazian frontier guards fixed a fact of illegal crossing of the border from the territory of Khurcha village of the Zugdidi District by several EU military observers. When our frontier guards started to approach them, they got back, took the car that was waiting for them on the Georgian bank and left," said the head of the administration.

Beslan Arshba has also informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the information about kidnapping of Kote Sadzhaya, 70, a resident of the Zugdidi District, Georgia, that was allegedly committed in the Gali District, has nothing to do with reality. "This elderly person tried to cross the Inguri River in a shallow place in his farm wagon and was detained by militiamen; then he was driven out from the territory of the Gali District," explained Mr Arshba.

He also treated as nonsense the information that "in Nabakevi village Russian militaries planned to build their military base in the territories of village rural cemetery; and for this purpose they have allegedly demanded from villagers to remove tombs away from the cemetery."

"This never happened and can never happen. No sense even to comment on these rumours. Too much honour for such persons like Tornike Kilanava, who invent stories from nothing and then duplicate them through journalists of their like," said Beslan Arshba, head of the administration of the Gali District.

Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali ROVD, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that these days the situation in the Gali District remained stable. "No fire here, against Georgian media reports made with reference some virtual independent structures of Abkhazia," Mr Kogoniya has emphasized.