Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

The Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Murat Djioev called the report of "Imedi" channel Saturday evening about alleged intrusion of Russian troops a provocation causing panic all around Georgia. "This was a provocation aggravating the situation speaks for the fact that the Georgian authorities are getting prepared for certain actions, and bearing in mind the fact that after the broadcast information, Georgian armed forces moved towards the boundary line of South Ossetia", stated Murat Djioev. "With this report, the Georgian authorities expected to threaten the people of Georgia and support the created enemy image of Russia, though Russia and Russian armed forces came to Georgia exclusively as friends and protectors", said the Minister.

The Ambassador of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation Dmitry Medoev believes that the report shown by Georgia TV channel "Imedi" on an alleged invasion of Russian armed forces, which had provoked panic all around Georgia Saturday evening, should not be broadcast since it was a "plot" designed for a case of new military adventures of Tbilisi.

Certain political forces in Georgia, while observing the fatal policy carried out by president Saakashvili, sober-mindedly assess the situation in the country and its international position. Therefore, many oppositional leaders started to communicate with Russia in order to mitigate the current Georgian-Russian relations, stated the South Ossetian Foreign Minister commenting on the recent visit of Zurab Nogaideli, the leader of the movement "For Fair Georgia", to Moscow.

Georgian authorities started to carry out new provocations, stated the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev commenting on the reports by Georgian media about alleged shooting at the village of Nikozi from the South Ossetian side.
Boris Chochiev reminded that while making a speech at the Royal Institute for International Affairs in London, Georgian President Saakashvili stated a new war in the South Caucasus region is possible and that he would no exclude the probability of the conflict in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The RF government approved the draft Agreement with South Ossetia on Joint Military Base on the territory of South Ossetia. The Government decided to propose the RF President the Agreement for signing. The Agreement is concluded for 49 years with providing for its default prolongation for another 15 years.

The situation at the boundary line of South Ossetia is stable, reported the press-service of the RF FSB Border-guard Department in South Ossetia. Meanwhile, the Georgian TV channel IMEDI showed a false “a report on the possible development of the situation in Georgia in case of Russian intervention”. The residents of South Ossetia who saw the report, did not immediately understand what was happening, and it caused certain perplexity among those who saw the report. People started to call each other.

The RES Agency addressed the Command of the Russian military contingent deployed in South Ossetia to comment on the information disseminated by Georgian TV channel IMEDI about supposed Russia’s attack against Georgia. According to official source of the 4th Military Base in South Ossetia, the personnel followed routine activities.

The US. Embassy in Russia did not timely issue visas to representatives of the Republic of South Ossetia. As one of the members of the South Ossetian delegation David Sanakoev reported to RES Agency, representatives of South Ossetia should participate in the Georgian-Ossetian dialogue hosted by George Mason University. "The South Ossetian delegation of four members should participate in the dialogue, but unfortunately, two persons did not timely receive visas.

South Ossetia considers the report of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Walter Kaelin as another product of double standards policy, stated the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev. Commenting on the Report voiced by Kaelin at the 13th UN session on human rights, Chochiev noted that the report created an impressions that "Kaelin, who visited South Ossetia in November 2009, spoke with indignation about Georgia authorities when he saw ruined houses and schools, and Kaelin, who voiced his report in Switzerland, are different people" "We fully understand that no one will allow anyone to tell the whole truth about things seen in South Ossetia. But I did not think that he would not dare telling at the session things that he described in his report after his visit here in November 2009", said the Special Representative.

On 9 March 2010, a working session on preparation of an agreement between the Defense Ministries of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation on the status of deployed military bases in South Ossetia was held at the Embassy of South Ossetia in the RF. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation Dmitry Medoev, Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Yury Tanaev, First Deputy Defense Minister Maj.Gen. Ibragim Gassiev, Defense Ministry Chief of Staff Col.