Co-Chairs on Tuesday will be received by President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov
The main objective of the Geneva discussions - the development of a legally binding document on the non-use of force, has become more relevant lately, in spite of the events that we have been observing in recent months, said Murat Dzhioyev, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy at a meeting with the co-chairs.
The Geneva discussions Co-Chairs are arriving in South Ossetia on Tuesday to discuss the agenda for the upcoming Geneva discussions.
In December, the fiftieth round of the Geneva discussions will be held, the co-chairs intend to discuss with the South Ossetian colleagues the agenda for the upcoming round.
The European Union, UN and OSCE co-chairs of the Geneva international discussions on Transcaucasia are planning to visit Moscow, Tskhinval, Sukhum and Tbilisi next week, Toivo Klaar, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, told media.
Commenting on the topics of the upcoming meetings, Klaar called one of the main issues the tense situation on the Georgian border with South Ossetia, in particular, in the area of the border villages of Chorchana and Tsnelis, where the Georgian side put up a police post.
At the meeting, will be discussed the only issue on the removal of the Georgian roadblock in Tsnelis
The seventh technical meeting as part of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) is taking place on Tuesday in the border village of Ergneti.
As reported to IA "Res» by the office of the Presidential Plenipotentiary of the Republic, the parties intend to discuss only one issue - the situation in the village of Tsnelis (Uista) in Znaur district of South Ossetia, where the Georgian side illegally put up a police post.
The South Ossetian party at a meeting in Geneva raised the issue of extending the mandate for the work of an independent expert from the OSCE, Dusan Ignatovich, on ithe ssues of South Ossetian citizens who went missing in August 2008, said presidential plenipotentiary for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev, head of the South Ossetian delegation, said at a briefing in Tskhinval International discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia.
Murat Dzhioev, Presidential Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement, head of the South Ossetian delegation at the International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia spoke at a briefing in Tskhinval on the issues, discussed on October 8-9 during the 49th round in Geneva.
The situation on the South Ossetian-Georgian border will become the central topic of the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia, the 49th round of which will be held on Wednesday with the participation of Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Andrei Rudenko. He will lead the Russian delegation for the first time in these negotiations, replacing Grigory Karasin, who became a senator in September.
The delegation of South Ossetia went to Geneva to participate in the next round of security discussions in Transсaucasia.
According to the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev, the Geneva discussions will take place in a rather turbulent time, "when the Georgian side is escalating the situation in one of the sections of the state border - in the South Ossetian village of Uista (Tsnelis)."
Anatoly Bibilov asked the diplomats why in Europe they believe that Kosovo could have statehood and South Ossetia could not?
South Ossetia insists on removing the Georgian roadblock and is interested in de-escalating the situation on the border, said President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov at the meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions.
It`s better if diplomats break spears than, God forbid, at least one shot will sound.
The co-chairs of the Geneva discussions arrived in South Ossetia on Tuesday to discuss the agenda for the upcoming round of Geneva discussions.