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On 29 June, the second meeting of South Ossetian and Russian commissions for delimitation and demarcation of the state borderline will take place in South Ossetia. "We have already done the preliminary work in Moscow and Vladikavkaz. There are certain difficulties, which are related to the fact that we have practically no documents except for the Decree on the establishment of South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast of 1922, majority of the documents are in Tbilisi. And we certainly cannot obtain them from there, and hence, we have to collect small pieces available mainly in the archives in the Russian Federation", said the Deputy Plenipotentiary for Post-conflict Settlement Merab Chigoev.

Despite the repeated addresses of South Ossetia, including those within the frames of the Geneva Discussions, the authorities of Georgia has not settled the problem with the gas supply to Leningor District of South Ossetia, finding different pretexts, sometimes absolutely unacceptable, like control over the gas pipeline at its segment on the territory of South Ossetia, control over the distribution of gas, etc., stated the Deputy Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Merab Chigoev commenting on the reports of Georgian media sources on the suspension of water supply from South Ossetia to Georgia.

The silent approval of international organizations for the aggressive and provocative policy of the Georgian authorities repeats the practice used before the attack of Georgia against South Ossetia in August 2008, reads the letter of the South Ossetian President's Plenipotentiary for Human Rights David Sanakoev the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Tomas Hammarberg and the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Discussions.

There are no primary or secondary participants in Geneva Discussions, there no Co-Chair institute, all the participants have equal status, said the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev commenting on the decision of the Abkhaz side to suspend its participation in Geneva Discussions on Security in the Caucasus.

South Ossetia does not need any additional legitimization, as any other internationally recognized states doe not need it. This is how South Ossetian expert Inal Pliev commented on the statement made by the Georgian State Minister Yakobashvili, who said that "Russia will not be allowed to legitimize so-called South Ossetia" and called for withdrawal of the forces of Russia from South Ossetia. "The Russian forces are maintaining peace in South Ossetia and protect the peaceful living of its residents. Georgia wants the withdrawal of the Russian force to bring its own forces and exterminate the people of South Ossetia, as it has already done before. For around 20 years, Russia was not present in the same capacity in South Ossetia as it is now, and it led to deaths of hundreds and thousands of people. The demand to withdraw the Russian forces is the demand to allow physical extermination of tens of thousand peaceful people. It is a demand of blood-thirsty people", stated Pliev.

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity held a session of the Security Council with the participation of the Security Council Secreatry Eduard Kotaev, heads of law enforcement and defense structures. Representatives of the RF FSB Border-Guard Department in South Ossetia were invited to the session.
The agenda contained only one issue: the measures for further strengthening of the state border of the RSO. In this relation, the questions of creation of temporary border protection system, establishment of the border commission, construction of the road Tskhinval-Dmenis-Disev-Artsev-Grom-Tsinagar-Orchosan-Monaster-Akhmadj-Leningor were discussed.

A Georgian priest has arrived on the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia. As it was reported by the source of the IA RES, the priest had fled from Georgia and seeking asylum in South Ossetia. The Agency has also learnt that the family of the priest, his wife and four children were detained by the Georgian law enforcement bodies.
According to the information received by the IA Res, the priest was consecrated in Georgia. Media representatives could not meet him yet.

Three Georgian citizens, detained earlier for illegal crossing of the state border were expelled from South Ossetia, reported the press-service of South Ossetian KGB.
"On 21 June, upon the decision of Tskhinval district court decision, three Georgian citizens were expelled outside the border of South Ossetia", says the report.
"Pridon Djeranov, 1975, Karlo Naniuri, 1945, and Nugzar Tsritov, 1956, were detained by the Russian border-guards for illegal border-crossing and handed over to the Border-guard department of the RSO KGB", reads the KGB report.

in relationa to the armed attack in the village of Diseu
On 15 June 2010. the borderline village of Diseu, Tskhinval district, Republic of South Ossetia, was fired at from the police checkpoint in the village of Koshki, Georgia. This incident resulted in three wounds received by a citizen of South Ossetia, Anatoly Kisiev, and his 15-year old son Robert Kisiev was seized and beaten up by Georgian policemen, and released soon after.

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity signed the Decree on Dismissal and Transfer of the Personnel from among the Armed Forces. According to this Decree of the president, the personnel, whose terms of active service expire in June-July 2010, will be dismissed. it is worth reminding that earlier, at the Parliament sessions, the acting Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseev stated that the plan for Armed Forces reform elaborated by the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia included transition to a new set-up in the defense structures and three-stage downsizing in the armed forces personnel, with 10 % decrease per stage.