Posted on 05/04/2008 1:04:16 AM PDT by NoLibZone
MOSCOW (AFP) — Georgia has called on the United Nations to send more observers to the separatist Georgian region of Abkhazia to check on the increase in Russian troops there, a parliamentary spokesman said Saturday.
"We have serious suspicions that there have been violations," said Nika Sturoua the vice-president of the defence and security committee, the Interfax news agency reported.
Sturova said they believed that Moscow had exceeded the quota of troops allowed for its contingent in the pro-Russian province and that "illegal weapons" had been deployed there.
Sturovas said that the UN was going to send extra observers to check on the weapons displayed, he added.
Extra Russian troops deployed Thursday in Abkhazia, despite objections from Georgia, which denounced the move as a "dangerous escalation."
The development sparked expressions of concern from the United Nations, the European Union and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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