Archive - 9/11/2010

Relatives of people missing after the Georgian military aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia in August 2008, residents of South Ossetia, sent an appeal to the UN Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, the President of the European Union, Mr. Herman Van Rompuy, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Mr. Kanat Saudabayev asking for an objective assessment of the actions of the Georgian side.
The IA "Res" publishes the full text of the appeal:
"Dear Sirs,
We, hereby, the parents and relatives of the missing people of South Ossetia address you with a request to help in tracing our relatives.

For South Ossetia it is important that the issues related to the fate of missing citizens of South Ossetia receive the same attention as cases of missing Georgian citizens, stated the Commissioner for Human Rights David Sanakoev.
According to him, the parents of missing citizens of the Republic continued their efforts to attract attention to the problem.
"They requested the organizations co-chairing the Geneva discussions and the media to help solving this humanitarian issue of the missing people", said Sanakoev.

- Amiran Evgenovich, at a certain point, the political leaders of South Ossetia decided to close the state border with Georgia to everybody, except the residents of Leningor district. How do you assess the visits of representatives of the OSCE to the Republic through the South Ossetian-Georgian border? And, what is the attitude towards this border-crossing by the representatives of the OSCE?