Officials from the Georgian and Russian Defense Ministries are conducting inventorying of assets of the Russian 142nd Armor Tank Repair Factory in Tbilisi, in an attempt to prepare factory for a hand-over to the Georgian side.
The process of hand-over should be completed before June 15, as envisaged by the joint declaration of the Russian and Georgian Foreign Ministers signed in Moscow on May 30.
The 142nd Armor/Tank Repair Factory, which was built in 1942, was the only factory of this kind in the South Caucasus. But it has stopped operation two years ago.