Bezhuashvili: Change of Peacekeeping Operation ‘Not Easy,’ but Realistic

Some eastern European countries are ready to send their peacekeepers to Georgia’s conflict zones, but it depends on which international organization a potential new peacekeeping mission will be carried out under, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili told reporters on February 21.

“Everything depends on which international organization will undertake this [peacekeeping] mandate. There are a number of countries that have expressed their readiness to participate in [the peacekeeping operations], including the Baltic States, Poland, Romania and Ukraine; but the important thing is which organization will provide this mission,” Bezhuashvili said.

He said that changing the current Russian-led peacekeeping operations with an international one in the Abkhaz and South Ossetian conflict zones “is not an easy task.”

Bezhuashvili said said a change would be difficult “because there are certain interests of certain countries in the international organizations. But it is also not unrealistic,” he added.

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