The tripartite advisory meeting of the co-chairmen of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) on settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict from Russia, the Republic of North Ossetia-Аlania and the Republic of South Ossetia takes place in Tskhinval. During the meeting it is planned to discuss the situation that has developed in the zone of the georgian-ossetian conflict.
«The detention of the Russian journalists by the Georgian policemen was illegal. However, for the Georgian side the main thing was to demonstrate its authority and neglect to the peacemakers, as well as to the journalists, that try to present the objective picture of the events », so Irina Gagloeva, the chairman of the state committee on information and press of RSO, has commented on the detention of the Russian journalists.
Under the specified information, the journalists of the TV channel "Russia" have been detained today at 11:40am by the employees of the Kurta department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia while preparation of a material about the activity of JPKF. The absence of Georgian visas by the journalists has served as an official occasion for detention. However, the journalists worked in the zone of the conflict at presence of the representatives of the press-service of JPKF and according to the legal regulations of work of a journalist in the zone of the conflict. As they have informed at the press-service of JPKF, there was an arrangement on shooting with the Georgian observers of the peace-making battalion. The Georgian side has undertaken a false arrest of the Russian journalists Andrey Chistjakov and Igor Sturita.
As we have been informed at the Embassy of Russia in Georgia the question with the detained journalists of the TV channel "Russia" is solved at present. They are delivered to consular group, and in the nearest hours they will be in Tskhinval.
In some of the Russian mass-media there was an information, that during the visit of the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Rene Van Der Linden to the Republic of South Ossetia, there have ostensibly taken place protest actions in Tskhinval. Thus the reference is made on the State Committee on Information and Press of RSO.
Already the second day Tskhinval, the capital of the Republic of South Ossetia, practically does not receive potable water. Problems have once again arisen on the site of the water sluice Edis-Tskhinval in the area of the georgian-populated villages Tamarasheni-Kekhvi, controllable by the Georgian side.
On July, 8th, 2007 as a result of negotiations of the command of JPKF and the parties of the conflict the situation in the area of the settlement Аvnevi is stabilized. The correspondent of the agency «Res “ was informed about it by the assistant of the commander of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the zone of the georgian-ossetian conflict on work with the mass-media, the lieutenant colonel Juriy Vereshchak.
In the night for July, 7th, the divisions of the Georgian special troops at support of 5 units of heavy technical equipment have started to move ahead from the village Avnevi in the direction of the ossetian village Khod. The staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of RSO is raised on alarm.
Today the working meeting of the co-chairman of JCC from the south-ossetian party Boris Chochiev with the head of the Mission of OSCE in Georgia Roy Riv took place in Tskhinval. As Boris Chochiev has informed us after completion of the meeting, an overall objective of visit of Roy Riv is the discussion of the developed situation in the zone of the conflict and the way out of it.
Approximately at 10:10am 7 military lorries with the staff and armament of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia have driven in the georgian-populated village Avnevi of the Znaurskij district of RSO. We were informed about it at the press-service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of RSO.