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. In this connection they have expressed regret for the occasion of refusal of the Georgian party of participation in the taken place meeting. The South-Ossetian, the Russian and the North-Ossetian co-chairmen of JCC have discussed the offer of the Georgian co-chairman to hold a plenary session of JCC with an open agenda in the nearest future in Tbilisi. In their opinion, the given initiative basically can be supported on condition that such a meeting should be carefully prepared and a whole series of preliminary coordinated questions would be considered at it. The South-Ossetian party has declared about its readiness for developing compromise variants of holding a plenary session of JCC in Tbilisi that would guarantee to the full the safety of its delegation. The Russian and the North-Ossetian parties are going to assist in searching the mutually acceptable decisions with reference to the organization of the forthcoming plenary session of the Commission. The parties are convinced that JCC remains the single effective format of the negotiating process on the georgian-ossetian settlement.
