Archive - 2/9/2019

South Ossetia and Georgia did not reach a general agreement at a technical meeting, where they discussed the issue of a post illegally put up by the Georgian side in the village of Uista (Tsnelis).

“Our position remains unchanged, the roadblock is illegal and the Georgian side must remove it,” Presidential Envoy Murat Dzhioev told IA “Res “.

The date of the next meeting within the framework of the IPRM is still unknown, the parties will agree.

The delegation of South Ossetia for the third time in a week met with the Georgian party.

The KGB of South Ossetia responsibly declares that a quadcopter of the South Ossetian Prosecutor General’s Office was shot down by targeted fire of the Georgian security forces, and the firing was conducted in the direction of the territory of South Ossetia, the State Security Committee said on Monday.

"This fact is reliably confirmed by numerous testimonies from local residents who were not far from the scene of the incident and heard the sounds of indiscriminate shooting from Georgian territory," the KGB said.

The delegation of South Ossetia for the third time in a week will meet with the Georgian party at a technical meeting to discuss the situation with the putting up of an illegal checkpoint in the village of Tsnelis.

As reported to IA “Res» by the Presidential Executive Offuce, the meeting as part of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) is scheduled for 15:00. The South Ossetian party hopes for a constructive position of the Georgian side on this issue, which will help relieving tension on the border.