Archive - 26/11/2010

Combat engineers of the Ministry of Defence of South Ossetia are destroying unusable ammunition. As the press service of the Defense Ministry reports to IA "Res", unusable munitions are transported to a special shooting range of the MoD to be disposed there.
"The unexploded ordnances found on the territory of the Republic after the hostilities in August 2008 are also disposed there ", reports the Defense Ministry.
It was also noted that the explosions would be made daily until 4 December.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia comments on the report of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities Knut Vollebaek to the OSCE Permanent Council

On November 3, 2010, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities paid a visit to South Ossetia. During his visit, Mr. Vollebaek met with officials of the Republic of South Ossetia, ethnic communities, also visited Leningor district.

According to press service of the KGB of South Ossetia, 25 November afternoon during demarcation work in the villages of Pris and Argvits (Tskhinval district) near the borderline between South Ossetia and Georgia, residents of the Georgian village of Ditsi (Georgia) tried to prevent the work of demarcation group.
"Around ten residents of the Georgian village Ditsi came close to the state border and demanded to stop the work, allegedly because the territory belongs to their village. Since there was no border crossing on either of the sides, the demarcation group continued its work, paying no attention to the villagers shouting ", KGB reported.