On 28 September, around 20:30, near a Georgian village Avnevi, seven unknown people in masks and black uniform of the Special Forces of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, armed with automatic weapons fired white vehicle “Niva” that belonged to the North Ossetian peacekeeping battalion of the JPKF.
Militarization of Georgia is going on with an unprecedented pace for such a small country. The President Michael Saakashvili repeatedly stated that army is his favorite. Why astronomic amounts of money are spent to procure arms when the economic situation of the country is far from being successful? Considering recent declarations of Georgia to settle the territorial disputes by peaceful means, which external enemy the Georgian leadership is afraid of?
Further to the sudden accusations by the Georgian leadership in criminogenic situation all over the Republic of South Ossetia and hysteria exacerbated by the Georgian mass media, the correspondent of “Res” agency approached the Minister of Interior press-service for comments.
Correspondet of “Res” agency asked First Deputy Chairman of the RSO Government, Co-chairman for the South Ossetian side of the JCC, Mr. Boris Chochiev to comment on the EU delegation visit to South Ossetia:
Republic of South Ossetia was visited by the European Union Special Representative in South Caucasus, Peter Semnebi. He was accompanied by: Robert Liden, Adviser for the European Commission, Diana Yanse, Political Adviser to the Special Representative, and Izolt Figerald, Political Adviser to the Special Representative.
Georgian Special Service again showed up on the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia. This time they are jamming Ossetian radio stations, particularly radio station “Aizald-FM”.
Operative group of the Ministry of Interior of the RSO, which was investigating the fact of abduction and beating on September 22 the resident of an Ossetian village Pris, was attacked by the Georgian Special forces. As a result of the firing two officers of the Ministry of Interior of the RSO Tedeev Atsamaz Zaurovich – 32 years and Kokoev Akhsar Georgievich – 37 years were wounded.
On September 22 resident of village Pris Artem Besaev, born in 1986, was abducted by armed people in masks, while he was looking for his cattle. According to Besaev, he was strongly hit into his head and lost consciousness. He recovered in a destroyed house in the outskirts of a Georgian village Kheiti. In the same house he was beaten up and tortured.
Recently Republic of South Ossetia was frequently visited by representatives of different western countries. Yesterday it was the delegation of the European Parliament, today it was the visit of the Ambassadors from different western countries and one the directors of the rose revolution John Theft.
Today the Republic of South Ossetia was visited by Ambassadors of several Western Countries and the United States. The delegation was formed by: the Ambassador of France Fillip Lefor, Ambassador of Germany Patricia Flor, Ambassador of the USA John Theft, Ambassador of Great Britain Donald MacLaren, Ambassador of Italy Fabricio Romano, as well as the Head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia Ambassador Roy Reev.