Georgia demands UN investigates Russian troop deployment

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 on Saturday.

“We have serious suspicions that there have been violations,” said Nika Sturova, the vice president of the defence and security committee.

Sturova said Georgia 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.