As reported by Boris Chochiev, the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement, in the phone conversation, a meeting between the South Ossetian Delegation and the top officials of the UNHCR has been planned for 27 January in Geneva. According to him, "the South Ossetian authorities had contacts with this organization before the Georgian aggression of 2008. The UN High Commissioner for António Guterres visited South Ossetia after the aggression through Russia, not Georgia. In Vladikavkaz he met with our refugees, and in Tskhinval, as a result of his meeting with the President Eduard Kokoity, the sides had agreed that the UNCHR would not connect its work with politics and would assist the people of South Ossetia affected by Georgian aggression.
Boris Chochiev noted that despite this, "the UNHCR representatives to the Geneva Discussions, as well as outside the frames of these Talks, tend to politicize purely humanitarian issues, and this is a gross violation of the UNHCR's mandate. And in case the meeting in Geneva does not yield in any concrete proposals from their side, the meeting with the UNHCR will be the last one".
