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- Amiran Evgenovich, at a certain point, the political leaders of South Ossetia decided to close the state border with Georgia to everybody, except the residents of Leningor district. How do you assess the visits of representatives of the OSCE to the Republic through the South Ossetian-Georgian border? And, what is the attitude towards this border-crossing by the representatives of the OSCE?

A delegation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), headed by the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Knut Vollebaek arrived in South Ossetia.
In Tskhinval, the delegation met with the Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Murat Dzhioev. The meeting was also attended by South Ossetian President's Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev and the Plenipotentiary for Human Rights David Sanakoev.
Murat Dzhioyev assured the OSCE representative that they would be given an opportunity to see the process ongoing in South Ossetia, including the situation with national minorities.

Tomorrow, on November 3, OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Ambassador Knut Vollebaek is expected to visit South Ossetia. The delegation of the OSCE will also include Senior Advisor Kaupo Kand and Senior Administrator Simon Short.
As the Foreign Ministry of South Ossetia reported to IA "Res", during his visit to Tskhinval, the delegation will meet with Foreign Minister Murat Dzhioev, South Ossetian Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev and Plenipotentiary fir Human Rights David Sanakoev.

A meeting of the working groups under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism took place in the Georgian village of Ergneti adjacent to the borderline South Ossetia, reported after meeting the head of the South Ossetian delegation Merab Chigoev. Acording to him, the agenda contained 13 questions.

It is regrettable that Tbilisi is still adherent to methods of provocative pressure and the Georgian authorities did not learn any lesson in the tragic events of August 2008.
Georgian authorities are very interested in having the activities of international organizations represented in this region in a way that they would symbolizes the territorial integrity of Georgia, including South Ossetia, but this contradicts the current realities and common sense.

None of the international organizations can implement its activities on the territory of South Ossetia through Georgia, said the South Ossetian President's Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev, commenting on the new rule imposed by the government of Georgia, stating that international organizations from now on must submit an special application form to the office of the Georgian State Minister for Reintegration to implement it humanitarian activities in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

On October 28, a quadrilateral meeting of the working groups under the Geneva Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) will be held in the village of Ergneti at the borderline between the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia.
As the head of the South Ossetian delegation Merab Chigoev told IA RES, representatives from Georgia, Russia and the EU would also attend the meeting.
It is worth reminding that the the last fifth meeting at the borderline Georgian village of Ergneti was held October 22, 2009.

The Prime Minister of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev held a meeting with the government to discuss issues related to distribution of Russian financial aid to the Republic in 2010.
According to Brovtsev, in the near future a meeting of Russian-South Ossetian intergovernmental commission would take place in Tskhinval to discuss and approve the distribution of funds.

A round table to mark the 10th anniversary of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women's rights was held in Tsakhinval. The round'table was organized by the non-governmental organization "Women's Association of South Ossetia for democracy and human rights." The roundtable was attended by members of the government and parliament of South Ossetia, intellectuals and the public of South Ossetia, as well as journalists.

The Georgian leadership has once again misinformed its citizens regarding the outcome of the last 13 round of Geneva talks, says the head of the South Ossetian delegation to the Geneva discussions Boris Chochiev.
As the press service of the South Ossetian President's Plenipotentiary reports, the Georgian Foreign Ministry released a statement where the Georgian side announced its "heroic success".
"The Georgian authorities have no support among their people and, being afraid to tell the truth, they tried to present a wishful state of affairs", the press service quotes the official.
"The statement is aimed at misinforming the Georgian people. We could have expected this, since the Georgian delegation to the Geneva discussions failed to defend any of the issues discussed. The representative of Saakashvili regime, one of the authors and developers of the plan "Clear Field", Bokeria and members of his team, when they had nothing else to say in response to the South Ossetian side's readiness to return residents of Leningor district of South Ossetia to their homes, showed their protest and ostentatiously walked out. By doing so, they showed that Georgia does not care about the fate of refugees, and for them it is an opportunity to manipulate the refugee problem for political ends ", says Boris Chochiev.