South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev told RIA Novosti that Georgia’s actions on the border with South Ossetia are aimed at seizing minerals, which, in his opinion, will then be transferred to foreign investors for development.
Deputy Chairman of the Government - Minister of Economic Development of South Ossetia Gennady Bekoev and Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade of the SAR Samer Al Khalil signed an agreement on opening trading houses in the Republic of South Ossetia and the Syrian Arab Republic, the press service of the Government of South Ossetia reported.
The signing of the document took place today as part of the official visit of the South Ossetian delegation to Damascus.
A technical meeting of the South Ossetian delegation with the Georgian party with the participation of representatives of the OSCE and the EU Observer Mission in Georgia (EUMM) ended in the Tsnelis village of South Ossetia, where the Georgian illegal roadblock was put up, the state television journalist Alan Tibilov told IA “Res. “
South Ossetia is demanding from the Georgian side to answer the question about the fate of the five citizens of the Republic who disappeared in August 2008, Murat Dzhioyev, Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement, said at a briefing in Tskhinval.
The South Ossetian side said that the situation on the border with Georgia is extremely tense, there is a threat to security not only in the district, but in the region as a whole. This was announced by the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the meetings within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (PRMI) Yegor Kochiev.
According to him, the meeting began in the morning at 10 o’clock, and ended at 15.00.
The South Ossetian party put forward a condition at a meeting in the framework of the IPRM to remove the roadblock until 6am Friday
South Ossetia at a meeting of participants of the IPRM (Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism) in the village of Ergneti demanded from Georgia to stop provocations at the border and remove the roadblock in the vicinity of the village of Tsnelis, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the meetings in the IPRM format, Yegor Kochiev, told reporters.
The mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia, together with the authorities of the Republic and the public organization “Hope and Memory”, has been constantly working to clarify the fate of the missing citizens , said at a briefing in Tskhinval the head of the department for protection of civilians of the representative office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Republic Rustam Alizade.
On Friday, in South Ossetia will be held the events to mark the International Day of Missing Persons, the head of the department for the protection of civilians of the representative office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Republic of Rustam Alizadeh said at a briefing in Tskhinval.
Since the 90s, 130 people are listed missing in South Ossetia, since 2008 - 7
South Ossetia has been constantly working to clarify the fate of citizens who listed to be missing, said Inal Tasoev, Human Rghts Ombudsman under the President of the Republic, at a briefing in Tskhinval.
The permanent presence of the Georgian police and the EU observer mission is recorded in the area of the incident.