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«There wasn"t any ambush! », the Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia Republic Michail Mindzaev has declared to the journalists, making comments on the message of the Georgian mass-media about the incident at the village Didmukha.
« The Georgian special troops have driven on the territory of South Ossetia Republic, the representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs tried to stop them but in reply to that the employees of the Georgian special troops have opened fire. As a result of the compelled reciprocal fire two Georgians have been liquidated», the minister has informed.

The advisory meeting of the Joint Control Commission on settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict has come to the end in Istanbul (Turkey). In the course of the meeting took place the attempt of the Georgian side to impose the discussion of a certain unilateral plan of Georgia on the other participants. The co-chairman of JCC from the south-ossetian side Boris Chochiev has declared that each of the constantly varying Co-chairmen of JCC from the Georgian side comes with a certain «new program», not adequating to the earlier signed agreements. Thus it has become customary to them not only to criticize their predecessors, but also to refuse of those decisions, that have been taken earlier.

Not possessing the sufficient political will and, obviously, the competence for conducting a productive dialogue, directed at real settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict and the overcoming of its heavy consequences within the limits of the internationally recognized negotiating format, the Georgian management prefers the game of a puppet theater. For making semblance of the georgian-ossetian dialogue and attracting the attention of the international community to it, the management of Georgia prefers using the sham «alternative government of South Ossetia», organized in Tbilisi and located in the zone of the georgian-ossetic conflict with the support of the Georgian state budget.

Today has taken place the next session of the Parliament of South Ossetia Republic. The session was presided by the Chairman of the Parliament Znaur Gassiev. In the course of the work the deputies has introduced amendments into the Law of South Ossetia Republic « About the state budget for 2006 » in connection with the changes of the profitable and the expenses account parts of the budget. Shurvan Kokoev, the chairman of the parliamentary committee on budget, explained the essence of the changes. He has asked to speak the Minister of Finance Aza Khabalova, that article-by-article has acquainted the gathered with the expenditure of the budget.

The Chairman of the Government of South Ossetia Republic Juriy Morozov has held a meeting with the minister of transport, capital and road building of South Ossetia Republic Rudolf Tskhovrebov and with the representatives of the limited company "Vladikavkazstroy " Juriy Urtaev and Anatoliy Kumaritov.The questions on completion of the construction works at a number of objects of the republic and the preparation for rehabilitation works at new objects were considered at the meeting.

In the night from March, 18th for March, 19th from 0.10 till 1.30 was carried out the visit of the group of monitoring of the military observers and the officers of the Mission of OSCE with the purpose of finding-out of the circumstances of the fact of infringement of the agreements on cease-fire between the sides in the area of the settlements Zemo Nikozi and Gudzhabaur.

Today is the Memorial Day of the victims of the Eredvi tragedy.
On March, 18th, 1991 the Georgian armed formations captured the lorry with the peace inhabitants of an ossetian nationality, moving to their villages. After brutal tortures and mockeries the 12 persons have been buried alive in a tomb, having become brotherly to them. To find the burial place and to identify the victims became possible only two years later, in 1993.

The situation around South Ossetia Republic continues becoming heated. The basic destabilizing factors are: 1) the proceeding militarization of Georgia under the direction of the American experts, the constant technological updating of the military objects, including the elements of the system Anti-Missile Defence, 2) the actions of the Georgian management on activation of the activity of the so-called Kurta-Kekhvi government on behalf of Dmitriy Sanakoev. The government of Georgia mobilizes here the huge financial and material resources, providing this illegal structure with importance in opinion of the world community.

Tonight, at 6:45 a.m., the four cars "UAZ" with the Georgian special services, roughly 15-16 persons, having driven to the village Kvatetri of Znaur region of South Ossetia Republic, have opened fire on the village from the automatic weapon and the machine gun.

On March, 14th the meeting of the co-chairman of the south-ossetian part of JCC Boris Chochiev with the assistant of the head of the Mission of OSCE in Georgia Mr.Veselin Nikolaev and the head of the Tskhinval office of the Mission of OSCE Mr.Bozhidar Dimitrov took place. The questions of the forthcoming meeting of the co-chairmen of JCC in Istanbul were discussed at the meeting. The meeting will be held under the initiative of the mission of OSCE.