Archive - 17/2/2011

A meeting of the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva discussions on security in South Caucasus with the members of the South Ossetia delegation to the discussions took place in Tskhinval. For the South Ossetian side the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev, Deputy Special Representative Merab Chigoev, the Minister for Foreign Affairs Murat Djioev and the Special Representative for Human Rights David Sanakoev participated in the meeting. The delegation included the EU Envoy Pierre Moreal, OSCE Representative for protracted conflicts Giedrius Chekuolis and the UN Co-Chairman Antti Turunen. In his opening speech, Chochiev conveyed apologies from the South Ossetian president Eduard Kokoity, a meeting with whom was in the initial program of the visit of the Co-Chairmen to South Osseita. The meeting was cancelled due to technical reasons.

South Ossetia and Georgia intend to continue the discussion of hand-over of detainees on 17 February in the Georgian village of Ergneti in the areas adjacent to the border with South Ossetia. This was reported by the head of the South Ossetian delegation Merab Chigoev. The trilateral meeting to take place within the frameworks of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IRPM).

The implementation of the complex plan of South Ossetia's rehabilitation was discussed in Moscow during the meeting of the President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity and the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. As reported the press-service of the president and governemtn of South Ossetia, this was a working meeting.