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South Ossetia and the Russian Federation are going to sign five inter-state agreement on cooperation, reported the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Murat Djioev at the meeting of Ministers and heads of government agencies at the President's Office.
"We are preparing for the signing of three agreements. On 11 February, an inter-state agreement on cooperation in prevention of and response to emergency situations between EMERCOMs is to be signed. Similar cooperation agreements will be signed between Ministries of Health and in the field of development of informational technologies", said Djioev.

Tomorrow, on February 4, a meeting within the frameworks of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) to take place in the Georgian village of Ergenti located in the area adjacent to the border with South Ossetia.
According head of South Ossetian delegation in the IPRM Merab Chigoev reported to IA RES, one of the issues that the South Ossetian delegation intends to raise at tomorrow's meeting is the fate of the Russian constructor detained by Georgian authorities on 14 January.

General Lebed Peace Mission is planning to start search for the persons missing in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict of 1989-2008. As the head of the regional branch of the organization in North Ossetia Alan Tatarov told IA RES, the work of the organization is being discussed with the South Ossetian leadership.
"This year we are starting the project of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation to assist in tracing people missing during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict from 1989 to 2008. For these purposes the Public Chamber allocated necessary funding", said the Tatars.
According to him, at the initial stage it is planned to collect information on missing persons and their relatives.

The families that were left homeless after the recent fire in Dzau District of South Ossetia are being provided with aid, reported the Head of Dzau Administration Pavel Kumaritov.
"We provided the fire victims with trailers, kitchen ware, cloths and food", he noted.
Next week, we will install two more trailers. There people can live as long as the problem of housing is not settled. In addition, upon the initiative of district administration, a donation campaign was organized. Residents of the district share the most needed things with the fire victims; they also collect money.

The Transcaucasian highway is functioning in its routine mode, reported the Deputy Minister for Emergency Situations (EMERCOM) of South Ossetia Sergey Sanakoev. According to him, SO EMERCOM brigades were cleaning the road from the snow at TransKAM.
"Yesterday, on 30 January, as a result of heavy snowfall, the level of precipitation reached 10-12 cm. The snowfall had stopped in the morning on January 31. Brigades are clearing the road and this does not hamper the traffic ", said Sanakoev.

Briefing by the NGO “Renaissance” (“Sandidzan”)
United Nations Office in Geneva

27 January 2011

The key topic of the event is, as you could have read in the announcement, the human rights situation in Georgia and South Ossetia. We have organized this briefing, for Georgia will tomorrow undergo the Universal Periodic Review – the procedure that allows international community to evaluate in a fair and objective manner the situation on the ground. But nevertheless sometimes UPR encounters a lack of information, and we see a positive role of the NGO community and the civil society as a whole in providing a more comprehensive account of the current state of affairs on the ground.

Comment of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia expresses concerns over the statement of Mikhail Saakashvili, which he made on January 25, live on channel Pervi Informatsioni Kavkazski.
When speaking in the European parliament recently, Saakashvili announced his peaceful intentions and refusal to use military force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Now, he says that "war is not over." The recent visit of Mikhail Saakashvili to Washington and his meeting with U.S. senators who promised to "provide Georgia with defensive weaponry in order to enable it to defend against Russian occupiers" also does not comply with his statement that Georgia would not use force to resolve conflicts, moreover that the same statement, word for word, Saakashvili made a few hours before the start of the military aggression of Georgia in August 2008.

Officers of the RF FSB Border Guard Department in South Ossetia detained three Georgian citizens, residents of Gori, for illegal border crossing in the village of Tsinagar, Leningor district, reported the press service of the Russian FSB Border Guard Department in South Ossetia.

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity has sent a telegram of condolences to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The message reads:
"Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!
We we deeply shocked by the news of the terrorist act at the Domodedovo airport, which killed and injured civilians.

The Ministry of Construction established upon presidential decree on January 22, 2011, will deal with road construction and rehabilitation of municipal sites. This was announced today in Tskhinval by the Minister Chermen Khugaev. According to him, the State Committee for the implementation of rehabilitation projects regardless of the establishment of the Ministry of Construction will retain its functions.