Archive - 25/5/2010

The Head of RF FSB Border-Guard Department in South Ossetia Alexander Murzin stated that the crossing of the state border of South Ossetia with Georgia is maintained under a temporarily set procedure in Leningor district (Mosabruni) and Perevi.
”Today, there are no official checkpoints for cross-border movement. There are border segments where a temporary procedure has been set. Such checkpoints exist in Mosabruni, where the cross-border movement is more active and in Perevi. Daily, totally over 700 persons cross the border on both sides. According to standards of a borderline checkpoint, this could be considered as a quite intensive exchange”, said Murzin at his press-conference in Tskhinval.

The Plenipotentiary for human rights to the President of South Ossetia David Sanakoev considers the statements made by Georgian authorities about the release of South Ossetians detained after the war in August 2008 “incorrect”.
“It is at least incorrect to talk about Georgia’s fulfillment of its obligations in release of detained South Ossetians”, stated the Plenipotentiary for Human rights David Sanakoev, commenting on the statement made by the Head of Information and Analysis Department of Georgian Interior Ministry Shota Utiashvili that Georgia has released all residents of South Ossetia detained after the Georgian-Ossetian war in August 2008.
Sanakoev underlined that the Georgian side, and Utiashvili himself, rejected the agreements reached in previous negotiations.

The Chief of the RF FSB Border-Guard Department in South Ossetia Alexander Murzin stated that the Russian border-guards interacted with representatives of Georgian authorities in order to settle conflict situations at the state borderline of South Ossetia with Georgia. “The state border implies deployment of the two sides’ representatives along this line. Undoubtedly, there issues to be identified and regulated jointly”, underlined Murzin at his press-conference in Tskhinval. According to him, various incidents occurred at the borderline, and they are likely to have place in the future. “Namely, the areas adjacent to the borderline are used for grazing. Animals do not care about borders, and hence, they often appear on the contiguous territory. Georgian media had recently disseminated information about eight armed persons, who had reportedly stolen 58 cows from the Georgian territory. We started checking this information with the Georgian side. Initially, they found a part of the lost cattle, then the rest. Apparently, the shepherds simply overslept and missed their cattle and had to invent this first story. The interaction resulted in the positive settlement of the situation”, said Murzin.