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On 6 April 2008 the Georgian side removed a total blockade of the Ossetian villages of Leningor, Znaur and Tskhinval districts of the Republic of South Ossetia. The Georgian government took this decision in the consequence of international community’s pressure, first of all OSCE and the International Community of Red Cross. JCC South Ossetian part co-chairman Boris Chochiev has actively interacted all these days with the Head of OSCE Mission to Georgia Terhi Hakkala and her deputy Veselin Nikolaev as well as the Head of ICRC delegation to Georgia Dominic Liengme and the other representatives of international political and humanitarian organizations, who has condemned barbarian, middle-aged methods of military and police blockades of the peaceful villages.

In connection with deterioration of situation over South Ossetia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of RSO M. K. Djioev directed letters to EC Secretary General Terry Davis, OSCE Chairman-in-Office Ilkka Kanerva, Permanent Representative of Russian Federation in UN Vitaly Churkin, Russian Federation Representative in NATO Dmitry Rogozin. Here attached the letter directed to EC Secretary General T. Davis

«Your Excellency,
Presenting my high confidence to You, I consider it strongly essential to draw Your attention again to serious exacerbation of the relations between Georgia and the Republic of South Ossetia since 1989 having been in the state of unregulated conflict, to the continuing escalation of tension in the region having come to the breaking point and to nascent menace of military actions.

In connection with increased tension over the Republic of South Ossetia and committed by Georgian side acts of terrorism at the territory of Republic, RSO MFA by order of the President of RSO Eduard Kokoity sent invitation letters to accredited in Georgia ambassadors.

«Georgian special services are backing all the acts of terrorism in South Ossetia»-stated the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, while commenting committed in Tskhinval at 27 March terrorist act.
«I would like to stress that the events taking place in South Ossetia today are a links of one and the same chain. It is an open secret that all these terrorist acts are backed by Georgian special services. We even possess the names of the individual organizers of all this. By today several perpetrators have already been detained in South Ossetia.

«Georgian special services are backing all the acts of terrorism in South Ossetia»-stated the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, while commenting committed in Tskhinval at 27 March terrorist act.
«I would like to stress that the events taking place in South Ossetia today are a links of one and the same chain. It is an open secret that all these terrorist acts are backed by Georgian special services. We even possess the names of the individual organizers of all this. By today several perpetrators have already been detained in South Ossetia. Their participation has already been proved and criminal research is under way at the moment. The only thing to be done is to carry everything to an end in legal form. The murder of Security Secretary Oleg Alborov is already detained, as well as the orderer of the crime. The cases of explosions in Djava region and at South Ossetian passport and visa service have already been disclosed. All the executors of these terrorist acts detained and confessed in the crime. These terrorist acts also backed by Georgian special services»-Noted Eduard Kokoity.

The OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva, expressed his serious concern today over a series of bomb explosions in recent days in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. Since 28 February, three separate bomb incidents have killed three people and seriously wounded at least five others, including one peacekeeper from the North Ossetian Battalion of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces.

Today morning Ossetian checkpoint located in RSO Znaur district Okona village was bombarded from Georgian side. The fire was delivered with heavy mortars within 40 minutes by Georgian Defense Ministry special detachment which arrived there half an hour earlier.

On 27 March 2008 a vehicle explosion occurred in Tskhinval. As a result of the incident Alana Tedeeva, our friend, a member of the “Union of Patriotic Youth of the Republic of South Ossetia”,died. She was only 25. At the age of 18 she became a citizen of the Russian Federation. Law-enforcement agencies of South Ossetia believe that she died due to a terrorist act.

Wounded in the result of terrorist act at the Tskhinval downtown Vissarion Valiev is in grave condition. This was informed to IA «Res» correspondent at the Republican hospital surgical department. «Vissaruon Valiev was delivered to the hospital yesterday evening at about 21:00 with thermal and splinter wounds.

On 27. 03. 08 at 20:50 JPKF Military Observers together with the OSCE Mission representatives conducted monitoring to check up the information received of the explosion of motorcar at Tskhinval downtown. This was informed to «Res» correspondent by the assistant of the Commander of Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict Captain Vladimir Ivanov.