The President of South Ossetia Eduard kokoity expressed his sympathy and condolences to the families of those killed and injured in the tragedy at the TRANSKAM main road, reported the Head of President’s Administration Arsen Gagloev Sunday evening.
The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity is departing Saturday, 17 July, to pay an official visit to Nicaragua and Venezuela, the countries, which recognized the independence of the Republic, where it is planned to sign inter-state agreement in different sectors, reported the Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Murat Djioev.
The 18th anniversary of deployment of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF) in the Zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict is marked today in South Ossetia. The people and the authorities of the Republic of South Ossetia highly appreciated and objectively assessed the peacekeeping operation considering it as a unique example. For the people of South Ossetia, 14 July became a holiday since 1992. The trilateral peacekeeping forces were deployed in the zone of conflict on 14 July 1992 at the height of Georgian aggression.
Further work of Geneva Discussions needs changes, stated the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev after his meeting with Co-Chairmen in Tskhinval. According to him, “based on the results of the 11th round of Discussions in Geneva, the Ossetian and Abkhaz sides had certain viewpoints on the further participation in the discussions”. “It does not concern a withdrawal from this format, but future changes in the work of the Geneva Discussions”, explained Chochiev. “We do not speak about withdrawal form the discussions at this stage, nor does the Abkhaz side, as far as I know. We speak about some adjustments to the future work of the Geneva Discussions, in order to make these discussions more effective”.
The Chairman of the Government of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev reported on the results of his visit to Moscow to the RSO President Eduard Kokoity.
"During the visit, we managed to agree with the Russian Stock Company RAO EES on stabilization of the prices for electricity supply", said Brovtsev. We have signed an agreement on gradual increase of the price for electricity. In fact, according to this agreement, the price will be increasing until 2013 up to 2,2 RUR. Hence, the RAO EES expects us to improve the collection of consumption fees from the population."
Ambassadors Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Nicaragua and Venezuela in South Ossetia Luis Molina Quadra and Hugo Jose Garcia Hernandez submitted copies of their credentials to the RSO Minister for Foreign Affairs Murat Djioev.
Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation Dmitri Medoev attended the meeting. The meeting was opened with the sides welcoming speeches. "I am pleased about your arrival in South Ossetia in the capacity of Ambassadors Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of our countries", said Murat Djioev. "We consider this visit as the proof of your freedom-loving peoples' highest consideration towards South Ossetia. The people of South Ossetia passed through a hard path to its independence. This path was laid through on the cost of many victims and the hardest period in the history of our people was the 2008 aggression.
The authorities of South Ossetia are intending to agree on the presence of international observers on the territory of the Republic, said the RSO President at his meeting with the delegation of the RF Federal Council. He noted that this position of the authorities was not new.
"We are categorically against of any kind of observers, who instead of monitoring the situation, carry out intelligence functions. This has been proved through the events of August 2008, when the OSCE monitors had left the territory of South Ossetia beforehand.
The process of collection of illegally kept small arms from the population of the Republic of South Ossetia, reported the Interior Minister Valery Valiev.
"We are carrying out the measures on collection of illegally kept arms in accordance with elaborated program. Citizens of the Republic have been lately handing over submachine guns, rifles and explosives every week. There are honest residents, who kept the arms in safe places, but some were quite negligent", said Valiev.
”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.