Preparations for the EUMM Georgia mission in pictures

(BRUSSELS2) A European defense mission when it starts, it seems very ordinary. The building, the exterior, and the interior must be fitted out. Install chairs, tables, partitions, connect telephones, etc. Then set up the permanent PC: a sufficiently large map of the area, radios, computers... Before it is operational and presentable, it therefore looks more like a holiday camp where one after the other arrives Then afterwards, it is It's about making contact with the authorities of the country, making a few statements to the media, in different languages. And finally receive the first formed troops who will go to the field. In this video - the arrival of Italian vehicles and observers. We can notice that the carabinieri still imprinted with their military corps did not really have time to take off their uniform and kept the military gestures which, ordinarily, are left aside in the civilian missions of the EU .

The French, who arrived on September 24, deployed in the Gori sector - which includes the buffer zone between Georgia (interior) and South Ossetia. A team of five officers commands the regional unit and the 31 gendarmes form 6 of the 12 "observation units". The other units being provided by staff Bulgarian, Polish, Maltese and Luxembourgish.

(NGV)