Article: Georgia vows to secure release of 4 servicemen detained in South Ossetia

Georgia vows to secure release of 4 servicemen detained in South Ossetia

MOSCOW, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Georgia's Defense Ministry confirmed Tuesday that four servicemen of its artillery brigade were detained in Znauri district in the country's breakaway region of South Ossetia, and said it would try to secure their release, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.

"The Georgian state will do everything it can to free them," Mamuka Kurashvili, chief of the ministry's peacekeeping operations staff, was quoted as saying.

He said the four officers had been visiting friends near the conflict zone.

"When they were returning, an armed gang of Ossetians and North Caucasus militants abducted the four ...

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