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«The peacemakers today are the basic guarantor of peace in the zone the conflict ». The co-chairman of JCC from South Ossetia Boris Chochiev has declared that to the journalists on completion of the tripartite advisory meeting of the co-chairmen of JCC.
«It is necessary to be guided by the existing arrangements, according to which the joint peacekeeping forces will remain in the region before the final settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict. Here when the world community recognizes the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia, then we will solemnly see the peacemakers off. But for the present they will remain here», Boris Chochiev has told.

On July, 13th, 2007 in Tskhinval took place the working meeting of the co-chairmen of JCC from the South-Ossetian, the Russian and the North-Ossetian parties. The participants of the meeting have estimated the situation in the zone of the georgian-ossetian conflict as tending to further aggravation, have discussed the possible ways of settlement of the accumulated problems, leading to aggravation of intensity in the region. The parties have expressed deep concern about the proceeding slipping of the negotiating process on the background of placing illegal posts of the power structures, construction of fortifications and the other actions of the Georgian side, leading to aggravation of the armed opposition.

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs of RSO Murat Dzhioev has accepted the representatives of the Mission of OSCE. During the meeting a new employee of the Mission, the officer on military monitoring from Czechia Ivan Trnka have been presented to the Minister.

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.