Archive - 6/2010

A Georgian priest has arrived on the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia. As it was reported by the source of the IA RES, the priest had fled from Georgia and seeking asylum in South Ossetia. The Agency has also learnt that the family of the priest, his wife and four children were detained by the Georgian law enforcement bodies.
According to the information received by the IA Res, the priest was consecrated in Georgia. Media representatives could not meet him yet.

Three Georgian citizens, detained earlier for illegal crossing of the state border were expelled from South Ossetia, reported the press-service of South Ossetian KGB.
"On 21 June, upon the decision of Tskhinval district court decision, three Georgian citizens were expelled outside the border of South Ossetia", says the report.
"Pridon Djeranov, 1975, Karlo Naniuri, 1945, and Nugzar Tsritov, 1956, were detained by the Russian border-guards for illegal border-crossing and handed over to the Border-guard department of the RSO KGB", reads the KGB report.

in relationa to the armed attack in the village of Diseu
On 15 June 2010. the borderline village of Diseu, Tskhinval district, Republic of South Ossetia, was fired at from the police checkpoint in the village of Koshki, Georgia. This incident resulted in three wounds received by a citizen of South Ossetia, Anatoly Kisiev, and his 15-year old son Robert Kisiev was seized and beaten up by Georgian policemen, and released soon after.

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity signed the Decree on Dismissal and Transfer of the Personnel from among the Armed Forces. According to this Decree of the president, the personnel, whose terms of active service expire in June-July 2010, will be dismissed. it is worth reminding that earlier, at the Parliament sessions, the acting Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseev stated that the plan for Armed Forces reform elaborated by the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia included transition to a new set-up in the defense structures and three-stage downsizing in the armed forces personnel, with 10 % decrease per stage.

A citizen of South Ossetia, Anatoly Kisiev, was wounded in the borderline village of Diseu (Tskhinvali district). As reported by duty officer of the RSO MoI, Kisiev and his son were shot at by Georgian policemen at the checkpoint deployed in the village of Koshki (Georgia). " A group of men in uniforms and balaclavas, armed with machine guns shot at Kisiev and his son in the outskirts of Diseu village. Kisiev received three wounds and was urgently evacuated to the Republican Hospital in Tskhinval", reported the Interior Ministry.

Geneva discussions on security in South Caucasus are stalemated, reported the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement in his phone conversation with the RES Information Agency. The sides could reach any agreement at the 11th round of discussions in Geneva on the elaboration of a paper that would guarantee non-use of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. "The main issue focused upon at the discussions was the non-use of force. However, as it could have been expected the Georgian side and its supporters started a more openly express their viewpoint that there is no need in elaboration of the draft paper when there is already Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements. The representatives of Sakashvili's regime were backed by the US. Deputy Secretary of State Philip Gordon", reported Chochiev.

The South Ossetian Delegation left for Geneva to participate in the 11th round of discussions on security in the Caucasus. The Delegation is headed by the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement to the President of RSO Boris Chochiev. As the Office of the Plenipotentiary informed the Info-Agency RES, the delegation includes the RSO Foreign Minister Murat Djioev, State Advisor Konstantin Kochiev, Plenipotentiary for Human Rights David Sanakoev and Deputy Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Merab Chigoev.

On 3 June 2010, a duty detachment of the RF FSB Border Guard Department in South Ossetia detained Nugzar Georgievich Tokadze (1960), a Georgian citizen, resident of Gori district for attempted illegal border-crossing in the Ossetian village of Kitriuli (Tuatikau), Leningor district. Once the fact of illegal border-crossing was confirmed, Tokadze was handed over by the Russian border-guards to the RSO KGB Border-Guard Service for further proceedings.

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.