The statement of a head of the South Ossetian delegation in the format of MPRI Khokh Gagloyty with regard to the border incident occurred May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 in the area of the river Ditsura to the south-eastern outskirts of Tskhinval, the engineering units of the border services of the Republic of South Ossetia were carrying out the planned work on the equipment of the border area of South Ossetia by constructing the barrier.
About 18.10, in the Georgian territory, which borders on South Ossetia, appeared an uncontrolled group, consisting of 30-40 Georgian nationals. As it turned out later, this group had introduced themselves as the local shepherds to the representatives of the Georgian media, who had also appeared at the same place. They said, as if they were concerned about the fact that the barbed wire (which is an element of engineering and the security barrier) would not let them in the future to graze their cattle in the pastures, which, in their view, should belong to them. Then this group began to move towards the border of South Ossetia, and some of them did try to pull out one of the pillars of the barrier. When the border guards of the RSO appeared, a group of "shepherds" withdrew back into the territory of Georgia.
In this regard, the South Ossetian side once again reported that the equipping of the state border of South Ossetia is carried out at some distance from the line of the state border of South Ossetia, deep into the territory of South Ossetia. These activities are implemented within the frames of the sovereign security actions of the Republic of South Ossetia; so, any information, or otherwise, the external interference is absolutely impossible. This approach to the implementation of these activities has already been brought by the South Ossetian delegation to the attention of the internationally recognized institutions to preserve security in the region that is the Mechanisms for Prevention and Reaction to Incidents (MPRI). Within the frames of this format it was confirmed that these activities were not the delimitation or demarcation, but only the protecting construction aimed at the cattle grazing in the Georgian areas adjacent to the border of South Ossetia not to penetrate into the territory of South Ossetia, and this issue was also raised at the MPRI meeting.
However, giving a more extensive evaluation of yesterday's cross-border incident on that sector of the border line, one could see that the actions of the uncontrolled group of the Georgian nationals were clearly provocative. As there are a lot of the so-called Georgian police units in the Georgian areas adjacent to the border of South Ossetia, as well as taking into account the statements of some politicians in Tbilisi, there is no doubt that this "manifestation of discontent by local Georgian shepherds" was instigated and orchestrated by the Georgian authorities. This incident is seen in South Ossetia as a continuation of the policy of provocative and destructive actions by Georgia towards the Republic of South Ossetia, and is connected with the statements of the Georgian side of the alleged attempt to affect a resident of the village of Niqozi by unknown persons, as well as the "history" with tying the resident of the Georgian village of Abano to a tree by unknown persons. These disinformation actions of the Georgian authorities have already been characterized by us as a series of performances of one actor, and remain to be the same.
Such "performances" have again returned us to the urgency of creating a real safety zone on the territory adjacent to South Ossetia. This issue has already been raised by the South Ossetian delegation at the MPRI meeting on January 29, 2013
The Republic of South Ossetia is empowered to state that such actions by the Georgian side, as well as a permanent position of the capriciously hysterical child of the Georgian representatives at the Geneva international discussions, is a testament of the failure of Georgia to the adequate presence in the internationally recognized security structures in the region and have revealed its predatory nature and fraudulent mentality.
In this regard, the Republic of South Ossetia is empowered to state that any approaching to the sovereign territory of South Ossetia by any unknown groups, will be considered as an act of aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia, and will meet the relevant reaction.
As for the statement of the leader of the Georgian diplomatic corps Maya Pandzhikidze regarding this incident, in which she stated that "the actions of the Russian border guards are considered as the unauthorized act," such statements can be characterized only as a paranormal element in the information space. The actions on the equipment of the sovereign territory of South Ossetia by engineering barrage constructions are carried out by relevant border authorities of the Republic of South Ossetia, and all sorts of links and mentions of the Russian Federation in this sense, are irrelevant and absurd.
