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| 'Shots fired' near Georgia leader | |
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| Shots have been fired near a motorcade carrying the Georgian and Polish presidents, Georgian officials say. | Shots have been fired near a motorcade carrying the Georgian and Polish presidents, Georgian officials say. |
| No injuries were reported in the incident, close to a checkpoint near Georgia's rebel South Ossetia region. | No injuries were reported in the incident, close to a checkpoint near Georgia's rebel South Ossetia region. |
| Georgian officials said shots were fired from inside South Ossetia, where officials have denied firing "shells". | |
| President Mikhail Saakashvili and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski were visiting an area where Georgian and Russian forces clashed in August. | President Mikhail Saakashvili and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski were visiting an area where Georgian and Russian forces clashed in August. |
| Since the August conflict there have been a string of incidents along the border, with each side accusing the other of violating a ceasefire agreement. | |
| Georgia has been marking the fifth anniversary of the Rose Revolution that swept Mr Saakashvili to power. | Georgia has been marking the fifth anniversary of the Rose Revolution that swept Mr Saakashvili to power. |
| Muted celebrations | |
| Georgia's parliamentary speaker David Bakradze said the gunshots came from the breakaway province of South Ossetia, and urged the international community to condemn the incident. | |
| Rose Revolution remembered A witness travelling with Mr Saakashvili told Reuters news agency uniformed South Ossetians fired the warning shots after the convoy came within 30m of the de facto border. | |
| But South Ossetian officials denied firing shells at the convoy, Russian state media reported. | |
| "The South Ossetian side has nothing to do with it," said South Ossetian spokeswoman Irina Gagloyeva told RIA Novosti. "There was no shelling from our side." | |
| Mr Saakashvili had earlier called for Georgians to unite against a "dangerous threat" from Russia as they did in the bloodless revolution of November 2003. | |
| Anniversary celebrations this year have been muted after the August conflict with Russia. | |
| The only planned event is a concert at Tbilisi's ornate opera house, and opposition groups have held rallies calling for Mr Saakashvili's resignation. | |
| One of Mr Saakashvili's former allies, Nino Burjanadze, has used the anniversary to launch a new opposition party, accusing the president of authoritarianism. | |
| On 7 August, Georgia tried to retake South Ossetia by force after a series of lower-level clashes with Russian-backed rebels. | |
| Russia launched a counter-attack and the Georgian troops were ejected from both South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a second breakaway region, days later. |