Archive - 3/6/2010

Today, on 3 June, an unofficial ad hoc meeting within the frameworks of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism was took place in the Georgian village of Ergneti.
"Representatives of South Ossetia, Georgia, OSCE and EUMM took part in the meeting. The agenda included only two questions: the findings of the interim report of Council of Europe independent experts investigating the abduction of South Ossetian citizens by Georgian law enforcers and discussions of these findings in question-answer manner", reported Deputy Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Merab Chigoev. According to him, as a result of Geneva discussions on security in South Caucasus and meetings between the South Ossetian Plenipotentiary for Human Rights David Sanakoev and CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Tomas Hammarberg, an agreement was reached that independent international experts would be assigned to look into the cases of missing South Ossetians. "We speak about citizens, who, according to verified information, were kept by Georgian law enforcement bodies in 2008", said Chigoev.

South Ossetia is going to raise at the forthcoming round of discussions in Geneva on security in South Caucasus the issue of Georgia's fulfillment of Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements. "The Georgian delegation backed by its supporters, the Co-Chairs of Geneva discussions and the United States delegation, tries to avoid the discussion of legally-binding document on non-use of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia", stated the head of the South Ossetian delegation to Geneva discussions, Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev. He assess the categorical refusal of the Georgian authorities to sign this document with South Ossetia and Abkhazia as a violation of Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia disseminated a statement in relation to the "statement" of President Eduard Kokoity published in media. The statement reads: "On 1 June 2010, some electronic media sources placed a statement allegedly signed by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity.
As a result, the Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in Moscow was addressed by one of radio stations of Israel to express doubts about reliability of this information of deliberately provocative nature and to present the original version of the false statement. Brief survey of this "document" strikes with poor work of the engaged PR specialists and the low quality of this fake paper, the content of which is pure insinuation and sordid fabrication with the use of dirty technologies. To prove this, one should pay attention to the depiction of South Ossetia's national emblem, where two rude mistakes were made, as well as the fake signature of the president, who has his personal letterhead.