Archive - 2/7/2010

”Normalization” meant by the president of Georgia M.Saakashvili should not start with mass settlement of Georgians on the territories, from which all Ossetians had been forced out", stated the Deputy Foreign Minister of South Ossetian Alan Pliev. "It should start with adequate compensation of the victims, including for lost property and decoyed houses, as well as compensation to the relatives of Ossetians killed by Georgian armed forces".

The Committee for state security (KGB) of South Ossetia reported that on 28 June, two residents of Kaspi district of Georgia, Levan Revazovich Daviaturi (1983) and Lukhum Georgievich Gamkhitashvili, 1971, were detained by duty border-guards in the village of Akhmadji, Leningor district, for illegal border-crossing. In accordance with Tskhinval district court decision, on 29 June both Georgian citizens were released and handed over to the Georgian side", reported the press-service of the RSO KGB.

Zevinar Kazieva, the citizen of South Ossetia detained in Georgia, is charged with illegal acquisition and storing of drugs, reported the Plenipotentiary for Human Rights David Sanakoev. According to Sanakoev, Georgy Kaziev, the son of the detainee, addressed him. "He told me that his mother was detained on 28 June in Gori for illegal acquisition and storing of drugs. As to the question on where he got this information from, he said that his relatives in Georgia has informed him. He knew nothing about his mother's whereabouts", said Sanakoev.