Russian Foreign Ministry urged on Monday for the immediate release of two peacekeepers in Georgia, who have been sentenced to two months imprisonment for allegedly illegal detention of local people.
"This is a gross violation of existing agreements on the formation of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces and their operations in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone," RIA news agency cited a statement of the ministry.
Georgian Interior Ministry detained three members of the North Ossetian peacekeeping battalion last Wednesday and has released one of them, RIA said.
The two peacekeepers, Tariel Khachirov and Vitaly Valiyev, were charged with suspicion of illegally detaining nine Georgians on Aug. 26 and 27, according to the Georgian authorities.
The joint forces, consisting of some 1,500 peacekeepers from Russia and Georgia, was deployed at the South Ossetia region, which declared independence from Georgia in the 1990s' but has not been recognized by most countries.
North Ossetia is a Russian republic in the North Caucasus.
Source: Xinhua
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