According to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of South Ossetia, near the Ossetian village Tbet was carried out an armed attack by the Georgian military formation against the check point of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of South Ossetia. According to the initial information, 3 people were killed from the Ossetian side.
Today a telephone conversation took place between the President of Republic of South Ossetia and the President of Republic of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh. The Presidents discussed the current situation around the Republics.
According to a source in the Ministry of Defense of Georgia, yesterday’s incident with Georgian military helicopter was prearranged by the Minister of Defense of Georgia Irakli Okruashvili.
According to the announcement of the JPKF Deputy Commander Captain Vladimir Ivanov, on 3rd September 2006 at 15:37 the air space of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone was violated by Georgian military helicopter Mi-8 that was proceeding from south-east to north-west above villages Abano-Balta-Vakhtana and went deeper over a distance of 7 kilometers.
On September 3, 2006 at 15:40 the air space of the Republic of South Ossetia was again violated. The helicopter proceeding from the territory of Georgia ignored repeated requests and demands to change the course or to land. When the helicopter opened an aimed fire from a machine-gun, it was fired back by the South Ossetian subdivision.
Why did the American senators come? This question is raised by people in Tskhinval, they hope that the delegation came to see the situation on the spot. This time the foreign guests were in a hurry. The visit lasted only for 40 minutes but the senators were prepared for the visit in terms of delicate demonstration of their feeling for Tbilisi and indifference to South Ossetia.
On the 27th of August Tskhinval was visited by the most dignified delegation in the history of South Ossetia, the delegation from the American Senate – 15 Senators with their wives. The meeting was also attended by the OSCE Chief of Mission Mr. R. Riv.
The recent events clearly indicate that the leadership of Georgia purposefully glows the situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict that is already extremely tensed.
The scenario of the activities was not changed: on the territories, mainly inhabited by Georgians and temporarily controlled by Tbilisi, the Georgian Special services carry out provocations, the victims of which become residents of South Ossetia of Georgian as well as Ossetian ethnicity.
“Unfortunately the reaction on the happened event in Avnevi, village in South Ossetia that is controlled by the Georgian side, can only be called tendentious. The comments on the situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict were given by the JCC Co-Chairman from the North Ossetian side Murat Tskhostov to the Correspondent of “Res” agency.
On August 5 during the monitoring in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, carried out by the OSCE Mission Observers, were found out trenches near the Ossetian village Tbet. When the Mission Observers tried to have a closer look at the trenches, they were stopped by the residents of the village. On this occasion the OSCE representatives made a protocol and complained on the conduct of population that allegedly restricted their freedom of movement in the conflict zone.