National movements representing the Cherkess, Russian, Karachai, Abazin, Nogai, and Ossetian communities in the Karachayevo-Cherkessia Republic adopted a joint appeal to the Georgian leadership not to undertake any military action against the breakaway Republic of South Ossetia. The groups also appealed to the international community to exert pressure on the Georgian leadership. North Ossetian President Mamsurov warned on July 15 that in the event of a new aggression by Georgia against South Ossetia, volunteers from North Ossetia would flock to South Ossetia to help their co-ethnics there. In Adygeya, the chairman of the republic\'s Union of Abkhaz Veterans, Amin Zekhov, said that in line with pledges given to that republic\'s leaders in 2003, his organization is ready to help defend South Ossetia in the event that tensions erupt into violence. (regnum.ru)