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Transdnestr may send peacekeepers to breakaway Georgia regions

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TIRASPOL, July 19 (RIA Novosti) - A senior member of Transdnestr's parliament said Wednesday that the self-proclaimed republic in Moldova might send its peacekeepers to breakaway provinces of Georgia in the wake of Georgian lawmakers' decision to oust the Russian contingent.

Oleg Gudymo, the head of the Transdnestrian legislature's security and defense committee, said Transdnestrian peacekeepers would be part of a joint peacekeeping force to be formed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia under a June 2006 deal between the three separatist regions.

Georgia's parliament passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and their replacement with an international police force.

Gudymo said the replacement that the Georgian leadership was pushing for "will lead to the same consequences as operations in Iraq and Afghanistan."

"Georgia and Moldova are trying to dismantle the peace agreements of the early 1990s. This is a very dangerous trend, which may bring the conflicts to a 'hot phase'," he said.

Transdnestr, whose population is predominantly Russian, proclaimed its independence from Moldova following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early '90s, at the same time as Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia.

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