South Ossetia will not participate in Caucasus 2009 maneuvers

The Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia will not participate in Caucasus 2009 maneuvers held from June 29th to July 6th in a number of Russia's southern regions, said Eduard Gabarev, the head of the artillery of the South Ossetian Ministry of Defense.

"We are absolutely not interested in these maneuvers. But we ourselves regularly conduct our drills in our base. They will be started soon, but we don't know exactly when," he added.

Previously Yuri Tanayev, the Minister of defense of South Ossetia, said that the republic will participate in Russian drills.

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