BRITISH CUTTERS FOR GEORGIA.

Two high-speed patrol cutters of the Royal Navy arrived at Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti on January 12, to be handed over to Georgia’s coastal guard in a ceremony on January 14. British instructors will train the Georgian crews of these vessels, the latest to be handed over to Georgia gratis by friendly countries (Prime-News, January 8, 12).

Turkey, the United States and Ukraine have been the most active donors. Georgia now has up to twenty combat vessels. Only two years ago it had none, because Russia had unilaterally appropriated the ex-Soviet flotilla based in Poti, and subsequently withheld Georgia’s due share of the ex-Soviet Black Sea Fleet.

MOSCOW CLARIFIES INTENTION TO PLACE MISSILES IN ARMENIA.