Representatives of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Russia noted the importance of developing legally binding guarantees against Tbilisi's use of force against Sukhum and Tskhinval. This was discussed at the meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry ahead of the next round of the Geneva Discussions.
Security issues on the South Ossetian-Georgian border will be discussed on Thursday at the meeting within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM).
The key topic of discussion in Ergnet will once again be the removal of the Georgian police post from the South Ossetian village of Uista, set up in late August 2019.
The participants will also analyze the current border security situation and review the statistics on violations recorded since the previous meeting.
The issue of removing the Georgian police post near the village of Uista remains a key issue for South Ossetia. Yegor Kochiev, head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM, told journalists.
According to him, this issue is raised at every meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism.
"Such issues cannot be resolved within a single meeting or a single request. However, the work is underway in this direction, and there have already been some positive developments," Kochiev has noted.
One violation of the South Ossetian state border by the Georgian citizens has been recorded since the last meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms.
Yegor Kochiev, a head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM, told journalists.
According to him, the final 129th IPRM meeting of the year took place on Monday in the village of Ergnet, during which the results of the year were partially summarized.
The next meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) will be held on Monday at the border between South Ossetia and Georgia, in the village of Ergnet.
The main topic of the discussion will once again be the Georgian police post illegally stationed in the village of Uista, South Ossetia, since late August 2019.
The participants will also address the border security issues and analyze the data on the border violations since the previous IPRM meeting.
The period since the last meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) has been relatively calm, with a minimal number of state border violations. Yegor Kochiev, the head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM, told reporters.
According to Kochiev, only three border violations were recorded during the reporting period. He noted no violations of the Republic's airspace.
The issue of removing the illegal Georgian post near the village of Uista, located in South Ossetia, once again has become a key point of discussion at the 128th meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM).
Egor Kochiev, the head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM, announced this to the journalists.
The main obstacle to the negotiation process within the Geneva Discussions on the humanitarian track remains Georgia's annual highly politicized the UN General Assembly resolution on internally displaced persons and refugees, which ignores geopolitical realities. This was stated in the statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry following the 65th round of the International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia.
At the 65th round of the International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia, South Ossetia urged Georgia to intensify efforts to clarify the fate of the missing persons and recommended that the Georgian party cease sabotaging the work on this issue and take practical steps to resolve it. This was stated in a statement by the South Ossetian delegation following the 65th round of discussions.
In Tskhinval, the co-chairs of the Geneva Discussions have once again seen the willingness of all the participants to continue working within the format, the EU Co-Chair Magdalena Grono has stated at the briefing following the latest meeting.
