Georgian president speaks of creating new officer corps in Georgian army.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Excerpt from report by Georgian Imedi TV on 12 August

[Presenter] The country's dignity and security will be protected if our officers' dignity is protected, [President] Mikheil Saakashvili said today at a ceremony for servicemen in Gori. The newly-renovated Gori military commissariat building will now be used to house the families of officers from engineering battalion, artillery brigade and military police. The president presented 17 families with keys to their new accommodation today. One officer and his family, among those awarded a new flat today, were refugees from Abkhazia. The president said that they would …