Georgian sources inform that on Thursday EU extended mandate of its monitoring mission in Georgia for another year, till September 14, 2013, noting the mission “has made a vital contribution to security and stability” on the ground.
The EUMM has around 200 unarmed monitors in Georgia and 20.9 million euro has been allocated for the mission for next twelve months.
“The EU Monitoring Mission has made a vital contribution to security and stability in Georgia and the region over the past four years,” said EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton.
EU has asked all the participants of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) to work on resurrection of IPRM Gali meetings. IPRM on the Abkhaz direction has not been held after Sokhumi accused head of EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, Andrzej Tyszkiewicz, as “undesirable person on the Abkhaz territory”. In July, 2011Tyszkiewicz was appointed as head of EUMM.
On September 13 the European Union called on Russia once again to “to fulfill its obligations under the six-point ceasefire agreement of 12 August 2008 and its implementing measures of 8 September 2008”.
