South Ossetia Demands for Information About Abducted Citizens from the Georgian Side
On 5 October 2010, the third tripartite meeting of representatives of South Ossetia, Russia and Georgia under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) took place at the border with South Ossetia, in the Georgian village of Ergneti. The meeting was held in the framework of the mechanism to look into the issue of the missing persons to identify their fate. This was reported by the Deputy Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement to the President of South Ossetia Merab Chigoev.
According to him, the meeting took place against the background of the Report by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Tomas Hammarberg based on the findings of the independent experts, who, upon the request of South Ossetia, were monitoring the criminal investigation into the abduction of citizens of South Ossetia Khachirov, Khugaev and Pliev.