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US evacuates more than 170 Americans from Georgia

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August 11, 2008

WASHINGTON—The State Department says it has evacuated more than 170 U.S. citizens from Georgia as the conflict over separatist areas there intensifies between Georgia and Russia.

A spokesman said Monday that two convoys carrying about 170 private U.S. citizens along with an undetermined number of family members of American diplomats based in Georgia have left Tbilisi on their way by road to neighboring Armenia. The spokesman says more convoys are being prepared in case other Americans choose to leave Georgia.

On Saturday, the State Department said it would pay for the dependents of U.S. diplomats to leave Georgia if they wanted.

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