Переговоры в рамках женевских дискуссий

In Tskhinval, a meeting of the participants of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva International Discussions with the EU, the OSCE and the UN co-chairs of the Geneva Discussions was held in the format of a videoconference. According to the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, during the meeting a number of issues related to the upcoming 57th round of discussions were discussed.

The South Ossetian delegation has expressed hope that the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) format will improve with the appointment of a new head of the EU monitoring mission in Georgia, Dimitrios Karabalis.

“The 111th meeting in the IPRM format was held with the participation of the new head of the mission. We hope that after he becomes aware of the matter, perhaps something will be changed,” said Yegor Kochiev, the head of the South Ossetian delegation in the IPRM format.

Negotiations in the framework of the Geneva discussions

During the existence of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) format, the period from January 17 to the present day turned out to be practically the calmest, the head of the South Ossetian delegation Yegor Kochiev said at the end of the 111th meeting in the IPRM format.

On Thursday the next meeting in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) will be held on the border of South Ossetia and Georgia in normal mode, Yegor Kochiev, Deputy Presidential Envoy for Post-Conflict Resolution, told the “Res” news agency.

According to Kochiev, the agenda will remain unchanged - the main issue that the South Ossetian party has been raising for several years remains the removal of the illegal Georgian police post from the territory of South Ossetia, set up at the end of August 2019.

The next, 111th meeting in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) will be held as usual - on March 2, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President for Post-Conflict Resolution, head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM Yegor Kochiev told IA “Res” .

The reception of the delegation of the co-chairs of the International Geneva Discussions in Tskhinval, scheduled for February 7, 2023, has been postponed, the statement of the delegation of South Ossetia to the Geneva International Discussions says.

The statement has noted that the co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions on Security in Transcaucasia notified the South Ossetian party of the decision to postpone the next, 57th round of the Geneva discussions, scheduled for February this year. The meeting has been rescheduled for April.

The South Ossetian delegation called on the meeting in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms to return to a "concrete" agenda, Yegor Kochiev, the head of the South Ossetian delegation represented in the IPRM format, told reporters at the briefing.

The first meeting this year in the format of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms was held on Tuesday in the village of Ergnet, bordering South Ossetia and Georgia.

The South Ossetian party at the meeting within the framework of the IPRM once again stated the need to remove the Georgian post in the village of Usta, the head of the South Ossetian delegation Yegor Kochiev told reporters at the briefing.

The first meeting this year in the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) format was held on Tuesday in the village of Ergnet, bordering South Ossetia and Georgia.

On Tuesday, the first meeting of this year in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (MPRI) will be held in the village of Ergnet bordering South Ossetia and Georgia, the office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative for Post-conflict Settlement told IA "Res ".

"This is the first meeting this year. Security issues, violations of the state border, incidents on the border and other issues will be discussed during the dialogue," the agency's interlocutor said.

The Geneva discussions are the only international platform where South Ossetia has the opportunity to discuss various issues, - said Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, Akhsar Dzhioev.

“The Geneva discussions are our only international platform, which since 2008 is a place where our side, like our partners from Abkhazia with the support of Russia and other international institutions, has the opportunity to discuss various issues,” said Dzhioev.