"We rule out impulsive and unpredictable actions in reply to today's explosions on the territory of Adzharia and do not intend to use military force for the purpose of overthrowing the power of Abashidze (Aslan Abashidze is the head of Adzharia). The main thing for us is to protect the interests of the population and we must do everything for that," Zhvania told journalists in Tbilisi.
He qualified the blow-up of bridges leading to Adzharia as terrorism.
As Zurab Zhvania further said, a special session of the Georgian National Security Council to be held later this Sunday will analyze in detail the situation developing in the autonomy.
"The Security Council does not plan to take any decisions on the use of military force against Adzharia," Zurab Zhvania said.
President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has met this Sunday with interior minister Georgy Baramidze and general prosecutor Irakly Okruashvili. As the press service of the Georgian President says, the meeting discussed the situation in Adzharia.
The situation around Adzharia again aggravated in recent dsays.
On Sunday, by decision of the Adzharian leaders, three bridges leading to the autonomy were blown up. Earlier, in the area of Choloki in Georgia an automobile road was closed on the administrative border with Adzharia. According to unofficial information, the road's closure was prompted by the Dioscuria-2004 military exercises in Poti (Western Georgia), the largest in Georgia for the past twelve years, and the intention of the activists of the political organization called Our Adzharia to hold a march of protest along the Poti-Batumi route.
Commenting on the blow-up of the bridges, Secretary of the Georgian National Security Council Vano Merabishvili told journalists that the Adzharian leaders and personally Aslan Abashidze had to do directly with the three explosions. "He (Abashidze) is in an agonizing state and is strongly frightened by the maneuvers in Poti. We did not have any intentions to carry out a special operation against the Adzharian authorities," the Secretary of the Georgian National Security Council said.
As speaker of the Georgian parliament Nino Burdzhanadze said, "very tough measures against the Adzharian leaders will be taken." She characterized as criminal the instructions on the bridges' blow-up.
