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UN Security Council to hold closed hearing on shot down Georgian spy plane

22 April 2008 08:39 (UTC +04:00)

The hearing will be held next week, but exact time of the hearing has not been announced. Georgian Foreign Minister Dabid Barkadze is expected to join the hearing. Russian Ambassador to UN Valeriy Churkin said they were not against the Security Councilâ€™s meeting, but considered necessary participation of Abkhazian side at the hearing. Georgian Ambassador to UN Irakliy Alasania said that decision made by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week for the establishing of economic cooperation with separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia had tightened situation in the region. All these cases forced Tbilisi to use spy flights over its integral territories for the gaining of intelligence information. However, Russian jet intruded into the Georgian airspace and shot down the Georgian plane. Ambassador Alasania considered necessary to empower the UN Georgian representation with additional authorities in the conflict zone to prevent retry of such actions from Russia.