Archive - 20/11/2009

On 19 November, the Special Representative of the RSO President for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev met with the Head of the ICRC mission in South Ossetia Pierre Reichel. The meeting’s discussion focused on the missing South Ossetians. Boris Chochiev additionally asked the Head of Mission to check the information available to the South Ossetian side on the abducted citizens of South Ossetians who are kept by Georgian police in Gori (Georgia).

During his briefing in Tskhinval, the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev told about the consultations on security in the Caucasus held in Geneva on 11 November. According to him, after the preliminarily agreement on the agenda has been reached, the first day’s discussions started with the situation at the area adjacent to the borderline between South Ossetia and Georgia and Abkhazia and Georgia.
‘The incidents at the borderline, including the detention of 16 Georgian citizens who trespassed the border of South Ossetia, as well as the 4 underage Georgian citizens who were detained with hand-grenades and explosives on the territory of South Ossetia were discussed. The Georgian side tried to build up the discussion so that it is focused on these four teenagers, but the report of the South Ossetian delegation focused drew the attention of the discussions’ participants on a more vital problem of abducted South Ossetians, including an underage persons. The Georgian side so far had refused to provide any information on местонахождении the fate of these persons.