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NATO commander says Black Sea of strategic importance for enlarged alliance

Here are the signs that the script is NOW coming to an end :

Mr Saakashvili, president of Georgia, announced on TV that his forces were ready to sink shipping off Abkhazia.
Russia has peacekeeping forces in the rebel provinces "I earlier ordered... that we should immediately open fire on, and sink, every ship which enters Abkhazia," he said.
Speaking just days after a Georgian patrol boat fired shots at a civilian vessel in the Black Sea, he added that Russian tourists should "pay attention" to his words.
Russia, which has close ties to the Black Sea province, said it would respond to any attack on its citizens with "the necessary rebuff".
The waters have been out of Georgian control for more than a decade.

ROSTOV-ON-DON. Aug 4 (Interfax) - Russian authorities have warned captains of Russian vessels against sailing into waters near Abkhazia, Sergei Livantsov, spokesman for the Federal Security Service's Border Guard Department for the Southern Federal District, told Interfax on Wednesday.