The Georgian Defense Ministry has described as "deliberate misinformation" reports that U.S. military engineers are rebuilding the airfields in Marneuli and Alekseyevka to make them fit for receiving U.S. transport planes. The scheduled reconstruction and modernization of the Marneuli airfields is being done by Turkish experts and is to be completed in 2003. Concerning the Alekseyevka airfield outside Tbilisi, no repair work is being done there, they said.
That would be stepping on the Russians toes. Let the Turks do it. |