Archive - 8/10/2010

The Ministries of Finance of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation signed an additional agreement on the procedure on financial assistance to the reconstruction, socio-economic development and support to balanced budget of the Republic of South Ossetia.
On 6 October, the Ministries of Finance South Ossetia and Russia have concluded Supplementary Agreement no. 1 to the Agreement on the procedure for financial assistance to the reconstruction, socio-economic development and support to balanced budget of South Ossetia. For the South Ossetian side, the document was signed by the Prime-Minister Vadim Brovtsev and for the Russian side, Deputy Finance Minister Anton Siluanov signed the agreement.

The authors of the draft-proposals the settlement of humanitarian issues in South Ossetia and Abkhazia do not take into account the fact that these republics are the sovereign states and are not part of Georgia, stated the South Ossetian President’s Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev.
According to him, the draft paper was submitted to the South Ossetian side on October 1, during the visit of Geneva Co-chairs to South Ossetia.
"We received the draft from the Co-Chairs of the second working group in the Geneva Discussions on the settlement of humanitarian issues, but 99% of the paper is politics, and only 1% refers to the humanitarian issues", said Chochiev.