Georgia - UN hostages taken

(19 Feb 1998) T/I: 11:02:23 Gunmen kidnapped three UN military observers and their Georgian driver Thursday (19/2) and demanded that suspects in a recent assassination attempt on the Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze be released in exchange for the hostages, the Georgian Interior Ministry Valarian Gogolashvili said. SHOWS: ZUGDIDI, GEORGIA 19/02 UN car entering compound; UN flag; UN sign on compound wall; UN car backing up; TBLISI, GEORGIA 19/02 WS of Foreign Ministry; SOT Nana Avalishvili, PR officer of the Georgian Foreign Ministry, in English: "This morning on February the 19th, at 0915 hours, an unidentified group of armed people attacked the United Nations observers headquarters in Georgia in Zugdidi. They opened fire and kidnapped four officers"; CA; "The kidnappers declared themselves supporters of the former government. And this terrorist act is a continuation of the terrorist act of February 9th on Mr. Shevardnadze."; ZUGDIDI, GEORGIA FILE UN convoy; 1.53 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...