Georgia Says Abkhaz Separatists Fired On Interior Minister

Georgian forces in the Kodori Gorge this summer (InterPressNews)

October 26, 2006 -- Georgia today accused Abkhaz separatist forces of opening heavy-weapons fire on neighboring Georgian-controlled territory while Georgia's interior minister was visiting the area.

No one was injured.

Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili was visiting the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, an area which Tbilisi now refers to as "Upper Abkhazia."

Ministry spokesman Shota Khizanishvili called the incident "yet another provocation" by the separatists.

(Rustavi 2, civil.ge, AP)