Archive

The meeting of the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Republic M.K.Dzhioev and the Head of the Apparatus of the Co-chairman of the South-Ossetian part of the Joint Control Commission L.H. Tibilov with the delegation of representation of the USA in OSCE, which has been presented by Jeff VanDriel, the head of the department on resource management, and Chris Sibyl, the officer on political questions, has taken place.

According to information of the department of public relations of the south-ossetian Committee of State Security, several provocations against inhabitants of South Ossetia Republic are being prepared by Georgian side on the roads which are controlled by the Georgian militarized formations.

\"The visits of the first persons of Georgia of the territory of South Ossetia Republic are an intervention into the internal affairs of an independent state\". The Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Republic Murat Dzhioev has declared about it, making comments on the visit of the prime minister of Georgia Zurab Nogaideli of the georgian-populated villages of South Ossetia.

Today the prime minister of Georgia Zurab Nogaideli is going to get into the georgian-populated villages of South Ossetia Republic, that are temporary not under control to the authorities of South Ossetia Republic. Not having coordinated his actions with the authorities of South Ossetia Republic, the Georgian prime-minister is going to get there on roundabout road.

The Deputy Prime-Minister of the Government of South Ossetia Republic, the Co-chairman of the south-ossetian part of JCC Boris Chochiev has met the commissioner of the Council of Europe under human rights Thomas Hammarberg.

The third day proceed the lawless actions at the illegal post, placed by the Georgian militarized formations in the village Kurta, which is temporarily not under control to the authorities of South Ossetia Republic. The correspondent of the agency \"Res\" was informed about it by the driver of the lorry, which is also in Kurta, Igor Gazzayev.

The co-chairman of JCC from the south-ossetian party Boris Chochiev has sent a letter to the Head of the Mission of OSCE in Georgia Roy Riv, in which he once again confirms the readiness of the south-ossetian party to take part in the meeting of the co-chairmen of JCC on settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict under the condition of observance of the offers of the ossetian party.

Tonight the posts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia Republic, located on border with Georgia, and the inhabited quarters of the southern outskirts of Tshinval have again undergone the massed shelling. The shelling was conducted from 23:30pm during 30 minutes from the automatic weapon and the special weapon, equipped with the devices of silent firing, from the Georgian villages Nikozi and Ergneti. The weapon emplacements of the attacked aggressors have been suppressed by a reciprocal fire.

The delegation of NGO «Geneva Col» has arrived to South Ossetia Republic. The structure of the delegation entered the president of NGO «Geneva Col» Elizabeth Ryusse-Dekrej, the officer under the programs of NGO «Geneva Col» Markus Haake, the representative of NGO «Geneva Col» in the Caucasus Mekhmet Balchi, the representative in NGO «Geneva Col» from the Georgian side Narina Berikashvili.

The co-chairmen of the Joint Control Commission are notified of the fact of placing of an illegal post of the Georgian police on the site of the road Tskhinval-Znaur by the commander of JPKF Marat Kulakhmetov.