Tbilisi worried about border demarcation thru backyards
TBILISI. April 22 (Interfax) - The Georgian Foreign Ministry has expressed concern about the border demarcation measures of South Ossetia.
"We are concerned about South Ossetia's voluntary installation of poles and barbed wire through backyards and land plots of local residents along the occupation line in the Tskhinvali district. The so-called "demarcation" has been done in a number of villages in the Gori and Kareli districts," Georgian First Deputy Foreign Minister David Zankaliani told a press briefing on Monday.
Local residents are unable to do daily agricultural works or move freely, he said.
"About 20 families whose backyards were divided by barbed wire had to leave their homes. There is a similar situation in the occupied Abkhaz district," the deputy minister said.