The Security Service did not agree [to setting up a checkpoint in Chorchana] because there was no proper coordination - if there had been similar coordination with all services in Chorchana, I think that after implementing certain stages, we would have achieved our goal, - former Deputy Head of the Security Service, Aleksandre Tabatadze, told journalists at the Prosecutor General's Office after the completion of the questioning relating to the Chorchana episode.
As Tabatadze noted, by setting up a checkpoint in Chorchana, "we got a very bad result."
“Of course, there were objections to the previous agreement [on the checkpoints set up in the Gori and Sachkhere regions]. The separatist government did not agree with this, the Russian side did not agree, but with our arguments we were able to have a proof that from the point of view of the security of the people there, both for the Georgian side and the Ossetian side, it was necessary in terms of maintaining peace.
If there had been similar coordination with all services in Chorchana, I think that after implementing certain stages, we would have achieved our goal. The Security Service did not agree because there was no appropriate coordination.
We got a very bad result with the Chorchana checkpoint. 100 hectares of forest, that is, a million square meters. Several residents of the Khashuri region, who were on this side of the occupation line, remained behind the occupation line. In addition, we, in this case, the Georgian side, set up one checkpoint and the opposing side set up 5 checkpoints and one mobile post. We have received this and this is our reality,” Tabatadze said.
According to Alexander Tabatadze, “All stages related to the occupation line must be agreed upon step by step, relevant arguments must be presented, and then implemented.”
“There were, of course, certain stages. It was also agreed that a certain part of the road was to be repaired. All stages related to the occupation line must be agreed upon step by step, relevant arguments must be presented, and then implemented,” Tabatadze noted.
As for the question of who he heard about the checkpoint from, Tabatadze noted that he heard about it after “meetings were held with the head of the State Security Service and also after the situation became tense.”
According to him, after the checkpoint was set up in Chorchana, “it was not possible to change the situation there.”
“The occupation line has moved closer and you will have the opportunity to see it on the map in the near future,” Tabatadze noted.
According to Tabatadze, after the Chorchana episode, Giorgi Gakharia’s appointment as prime minister “was a political decision.”
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