Archive - 5/10/2010

The Geneva Discussions on Security in the Caucasus are an important component of the settlement of security and humanitarian problems in the South Caucasus. This was stated by the Co-Chairs of the Geneva discussions, the EU, UN and OSCE envoys, after a meeting held 1 October evening in Tskhinval with South Ossetian authorities.
"We have carefully reviewed the issues to be discussed at the next round of discussions on October 14th. First issue relates to security, the second covers humanitarian problems", said the EU Envoy Pierre Morel.
According to him, the work on these issues continues outside the Geneva Discussions. Morel pointed to Report of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg on the results of the investigation of cases of persons missing during and after the hostilities in August 2008.

On October 4, 2010, around 7:30 AM a detachment of the RF FSB Border Guard Department in South Ossetia detained a man with no identity documents near the village of Artsev, Tskhinval district of South Ossetia, at a distance of 350 meters from the border between South Ossetia and Georgia, reported the Press Service of the Border Guard Department.
It was noted that according to the detainee, he was a citizen of Georgia.

On 4 October, a meeting of the Review Conference of the OSCE in Warsaw took place. Second edition of the Venice Commission guiding principles for the OSCE was presented here.
Issues related to the implementation of the right to peaceful assembly, freedom of expression and freedom of associations forming the fundamentals of any democratic system were discussed.
Venice Commission provides legislative support to the OSCE participating States to assist them in ensuring the compliance of their legislation in matters relating to freedom of peaceful assembly to OSCE commitments and international standards.