South Ossetia and Georgia intend to continue the discussion of hand-over of detainees on 17 February in the Georgian village of Ergneti in the areas adjacent to the border with South Ossetia. This was reported by the head of the South Ossetian delegation Merab Chigoev. The trilateral meeting to take place within the frameworks of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IRPM).
"The meeting will focus on the possibility of mutual hand-over of detainees (both sentenced and under investigation) raised at the meeting in Ergneti on 4 February 2011", reported Chigoev.
"The IPRM contacts will be continued in the same tripartite format (South Ossetia, Russia and Georgia) through the so-called hotline", noted Chigoev.
According to him, South Ossetia would again raise the problem of the missing South Ossetians.
The agreement on the creation of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms was reached at the 4th round of the Geneva discussions on security in the South Caucasus in February 2009.
