15.09.2009
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Russian FSB Frontier Service will detain ships violated Abkhazian sea border, Col. Gen. Viktor Trufanov, Deputy Chief of Frontier Service and Director of Coastguard Department said to reporters on Tuesday.
"Russian border guard vessels will detain violators of Abkhazian sea border in the framework of bilateral agreements between Russia and Abkhazia and also within the limits of active legislation", he said.
The Director of Frontier Guard Department and Deputy Chief of FSB Frontier Service Evgeny Inchin reported to
RIA Novosti that the FSB coastguard in cooperation with Abkhazian border guards will protect ships came to territorial waters of Abkhazia from detainment by Georgia.
It is also the security measure in the framework of preparation to
Sochi-2014 Olympics, said Inchin.
Since Georgia considers Abkhazia as a part of Georgian territory, it interprets sea cargo delivery to this republic without permission of Tbilisi as violation of Georgian legislation. Georgian coastguard has detained over 20 vessels since the beginning of 2009. Some were arrested for violation of entry rules of "occupied territories".
The RF-Abkhazian agreement of border control provides united actions on enhancing security in Abkhazia territorial waters.
On the night of August, 8, 2008 Georgian troops attacked South Ossetia and destructed part of its capital-city Tshinval. Russia, protecting South Ossetian people and Russian citizens among them, brought its troops into the republic and after five days of warfare ousted Georgian military from the region.
In the end of August, 2008 Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In response to that Tbilisi broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow and declared the two Transcaucasian republics as "occupied territories".
