Ministerial functionaries met Alexander Studenikin, in command of the Transcaucasian Army Group, Monday last-September 6, to come to an accord for 19 out of the group's projects to be ceded at an initial stage of the arrangement, in compliance with available understandings.
A joint commission of the Defence Ministry and the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces has thoroughly examined eleven out of the projects for today. These will be passed to Georgia before September 17. The following stage will concern projects by now vacated by Russian soldiers and currently used for purposes other than military, say ministerial PR.
The future of an engineering and munitions depot in Sagaradjo, East Georgia, will be settled at the negotiation table. The site has to be cleaned of mines for the start. Georgia is willing to assign its experts for the job if Russia provides the equipment they need.
Tank Works No. 142 is too entangled in debt to be ceded promptly. Its back taxes to Georgia make a million lari. Georgia's Defence Ministry, in its turn, owes the company 41,300 lari. The ministry has set up an ad hoc team for a firsthand view of the company's situation, and to appraise terms on which Russia will cede it.
