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The incessant artificial aggravation of the situation in the zone of the georgian-ossetian conflict and the demonstrative provoking of dangerous tension in the georgian-ossetian relations, that the management of Georgia continues to carry out, leaves less hopes for the opportunity of conducting a constructive dialogue with it as with the adequate opponent.
As it has already been informed, as a result of the deliberate destruction by the Georgian side of the main sluice Edis-Tskhinval in the area of the georgian-populated villages Tamarasheni-Kekhvi, the supply of potable water to the town Tskhinval is stopped. The twelve-day water blockade in conditions of the unusually hot weather put the population of the town in a critical situation, really threatening with the occurrence of humanitarian accident.

Already, for more than 10 days the inhabitants of South Ossetia have endured the conditions of a humanitarian disaster. There is no water in the villages. Kindergartens, schools and hospitals are in critical condition. The population can hardly stand such living conditions in 30 decrees heat. The first cases recorded of gastrointestinal infections have been noted, most of them preschool age children. The blame for the events that are unfolding is fully on the Georgian side, which deliberately closed the water supply to Great Liakhvi Gorge.

The peoples of Abkhazia and South Ossetia follow closely the developments around Kosovo. Should this region secede from Serbia and be recognized independent, it will yet again testify convincingly to the fact that the settlement of inter-ethnic conflicts is not only based on the principle of territorial integrity of States. Realization of the right of peoples to self-determination, provided there is evidence that they are capable of managing their own lives and ensuring development in accordance with the universally recognized democratic norms, might prove the only means of peaceful settlement of conflict situations.

The Georgian side has thrown six KAMAZ with alive force to the georgian-populated settlement Avnevi, temporarily uncontrollable to the authorities of South Ossetia Republic. The correspondent of «Res» was informed about it at the press-service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia Republic. According to the available information, the Georgian military men have arrived to the settlement Avnevi today at 14:30pm.

The president of South Ossetia Republic Eduard Kokoyty has accepted the Head of the Mission of OSCE, the Ambassador Roy Riv. In the course of the taken place conversation a wide range of questions, connected with the present aggravated situation in the zone of the georgian-ossetian conflict, and the search of ways of overcoming of the crisis that has recently developed in the process of settlement of the georgian-ossetian relations has been discussed.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressing extreme concern, is compelled again to pay the attention of the international community to the absolutely inadmissible in conditions of the extremely intensed georgian-ossetian relations actions of the Georgian side, directed at putting rough pressure upon South Ossetia.

Already within a week hot weather keeps in South Ossetia, and in the course of five days Tskhinval remains without potable water. The reason of such situation is the deliberate damage of the sluice Edis-Tskhinval, passing through the Georgian villages, by the inhabitants of which are arranged illegal cuts for irrigation of their gardens and vegetable gardens.

In the night from May, 27th, for May, 28th, in the georgian-populated village Avnevi the two citizens of South Ossetia Republic, making their way on their own car from the ossetian village Mugut to the capital of South Ossetia Republic, Tskhinval, were stopped by the employees of the Georgian police. One of the citizens of South Ossetia Republic, Tamaz Bestaev, 25 years old, was brutally beaten, having received heavy physical injuries, brain concussion.

On May, 25th, 2007 during the period from 14.35pm till 15.50pm by the military observers from the three parties and the officers of the mission of OSCE was held a monitoring with the purpose of checking of the received by the Joint Staff of JPKF information about the wound of the inhabitant of the settlement Ergneti as a result of grenade explosion.

The Georgian side has made one more attempt of aggravating of the situation in the zone of the conflict. Earlier the Government of South Ossetia Republic had repeatedly openly informed about the construction of a roundabout road in Znaur region, that would allow the inhabitants of the region to move freely, and the Georgian party wouldn"t raise any official claims in this occasion.