Igor Giorgadze: "Georgia's Path to the West Lies Via Russia"

[FBIS-USR-94-048] 5 May 1994 | THE ARCHIVE REMEMBERS

United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Central Eurasia ·

[FBIS-USR-94-048] 5 May 1994 - Igor Giorgadze, Chairman of the Georgian State Security Service: “Georgia’s Path to the West Lies Via Russia”

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Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze after signing the Treaty of Russian-Georgian Friendship, Good Neighborliness, and Cooperation (February 3, 1994).

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[March 1994 - FBIS-USR-94-048] Former Georgian Defense Minister Tengiz Kitovani:

Kitovani on Ziviad Gamsakhurdia [FBIS-USR-94-048]

Kitovani on Eduard Shevardnadze [FBIS-USR-94-048]

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Tengiz Kitovani with Georgian soldiers in Abkhazia (1992).

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[FBIS-USR-93-031] Shevardnadze: “Russian troops do not participate in combat operations, but their weapons and equipment have spread throughout the region and have fallen into the hands of those who are fighting.”

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