Today in Tskhinval President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov has declared at the meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions that the Georgian side is conducting intensive preparations for a war around the perimeter of the border with South Ossetia.
Co-Chairs of the Geneva discussions on Security in Transcaucasia, arrived today in South Ossetia on a working visit, have met in Tskhinval with the South Ossetian negotiators.
Opening the meeting, the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev expressed the hope that this visit would further strengthen security in the region, and the parties would be satisfied with the work done.
One of the most popular topics in the Georgian media is the strategic command-staff maneuvers "Caucasus-2012", which has started today, September 17, 2012. Georgian media regularly publish the articles and broadcast the discussions associated with these maneuvers. The main objective of these broadcastsis to suggest an idea to the Georgian and international community that after such maneuvers in 2008 Georgia became involved in a war with Russia and has lost 20% of its original territory occupied by Moscow. The fact that in August 2008 it was the Georgian army which attacked the Russian peacekeepers, who had been serving in accordance with the interstate Dagomys agreement and it was Georgia, which tried to wipe the South Ossetian capital together with its inhabitants off the map, has not been even indirectly mentioned in the Georgian media.