10 citizens of Georgia detained for illegal crossing of the frontier of South Ossetia on June, 18-19, 2011 have been expelled from the Republic of South Ossetia. Their transference has taken place on the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia between the town Tskhinval and the village Ergnet. The violators in the presence of press have informed the representatives of the Georgian force structures receiving them that while being under arrest the employees of the South-Ossetian frontier service and law enforcement bodies treated them exclusively politely, fed them well, supplied them with cigarettes, and during deportation have returned all their personal things withdrawn at detention in safe and sound.
They have especially underlined that have no claims to the South-Ossetian side. We should remind that according to the information given the news agency "Res" by the Deputy Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on post conflict settlement Merab Chigoev, during the last meeting within the frames of Mechanism on prevention of incidents the South-Ossetian side has declared that it has the information about the planned violating of the RSO frontier on the part of Georgia during the celebration of the Sanctuary Day in Koz and has asked the present representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia and the high rank observers of the EU Mission to refrain from realization of this provocation. However this prevention has been ignored.
