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Interior Minister Downplays Crime in Svaneti

(Tbilisi, September 4, 2003, Civil Georgia) – Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili told reporters on September 3 that reports on the grave crime situation in the north-western mountainous region of Svaneti are exaggerated.

The National Security Council decided on August 22 to carry out an anti-crime operation in Svaneti. Later President Shevardnadze appealed to the region’s population to support the operation.

“We do not need a large scale operation. The situation in Svaneti is the same as other regions of Georgia and do not exaggerate,” Koba Narchemashvili told !
reporters.

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