For the last half a year the Georgian party constantly blocks the format of the Mixed Supervisory Commission on unintelligible to us reasons and does not participate in the negotiating process.
On January, 18th, 2007 according to the plan of activity, a monitoring of the settlements and areas in the zone of responsibility was held by the Mixed forces on peace maintenance in the georgian-ossetian conflict zone.
On the meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia S.V. Lavrov with the President of South Ossetia E.D. Kokoity
On 19 January a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs S.V. Lavrov with the President of South Ossetia E.D. Kokoity, who is in Moscow on business trip, took place.
During the meeting S.V. Lavrov and E.D. Kokoity discussed the situation in South Ossetia, a range of issues related to further development of the negotiation process on the Georgian-Ossetian conflict resolution. The sides noted the need to take urgent and effective measures to find a way out of the prolonged deadlock in the negotiation process. They agree that lack of positive dynamics in this process could be a destabilizing factor for South Ossetia and for the whole region, could intensify confrontation, including armed, in the conflict zone.