There are no primary or secondary participants in Geneva Discussions, there no Co-Chair institute, all the participants have equal status, said the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev commenting on the decision of the Abkhaz side to suspend its participation in Geneva Discussions on Security in the Caucasus.
South Ossetia does not need any additional legitimization, as any other internationally recognized states doe not need it. This is how South Ossetian expert Inal Pliev commented on the statement made by the Georgian State Minister Yakobashvili, who said that "Russia will not be allowed to legitimize so-called South Ossetia" and called for withdrawal of the forces of Russia from South Ossetia. "The Russian forces are maintaining peace in South Ossetia and protect the peaceful living of its residents. Georgia wants the withdrawal of the Russian force to bring its own forces and exterminate the people of South Ossetia, as it has already done before. For around 20 years, Russia was not present in the same capacity in South Ossetia as it is now, and it led to deaths of hundreds and thousands of people. The demand to withdraw the Russian forces is the demand to allow physical extermination of tens of thousand peaceful people. It is a demand of blood-thirsty people", stated Pliev.
The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity held a session of the Security Council with the participation of the Security Council Secreatry Eduard Kotaev, heads of law enforcement and defense structures. Representatives of the RF FSB Border-Guard Department in South Ossetia were invited to the session.
The agenda contained only one issue: the measures for further strengthening of the state border of the RSO. In this relation, the questions of creation of temporary border protection system, establishment of the border commission, construction of the road Tskhinval-Dmenis-Disev-Artsev-Grom-Tsinagar-Orchosan-Monaster-Akhmadj-Leningor were discussed.
A Georgian priest has arrived on the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia. As it was reported by the source of the IA RES, the priest had fled from Georgia and seeking asylum in South Ossetia. The Agency has also learnt that the family of the priest, his wife and four children were detained by the Georgian law enforcement bodies.
According to the information received by the IA Res, the priest was consecrated in Georgia. Media representatives could not meet him yet.
Three Georgian citizens, detained earlier for illegal crossing of the state border were expelled from South Ossetia, reported the press-service of South Ossetian KGB.
"On 21 June, upon the decision of Tskhinval district court decision, three Georgian citizens were expelled outside the border of South Ossetia", says the report.
"Pridon Djeranov, 1975, Karlo Naniuri, 1945, and Nugzar Tsritov, 1956, were detained by the Russian border-guards for illegal border-crossing and handed over to the Border-guard department of the RSO KGB", reads the KGB report.
in relationa to the armed attack in the village of Diseu
On 15 June 2010. the borderline village of Diseu, Tskhinval district, Republic of South Ossetia, was fired at from the police checkpoint in the village of Koshki, Georgia. This incident resulted in three wounds received by a citizen of South Ossetia, Anatoly Kisiev, and his 15-year old son Robert Kisiev was seized and beaten up by Georgian policemen, and released soon after.
The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity signed the Decree on Dismissal and Transfer of the Personnel from among the Armed Forces. According to this Decree of the president, the personnel, whose terms of active service expire in June-July 2010, will be dismissed. it is worth reminding that earlier, at the Parliament sessions, the acting Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseev stated that the plan for Armed Forces reform elaborated by the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia included transition to a new set-up in the defense structures and three-stage downsizing in the armed forces personnel, with 10 % decrease per stage.
A citizen of South Ossetia, Anatoly Kisiev, was wounded in the borderline village of Diseu (Tskhinvali district). As reported by duty officer of the RSO MoI, Kisiev and his son were shot at by Georgian policemen at the checkpoint deployed in the village of Koshki (Georgia). " A group of men in uniforms and balaclavas, armed with machine guns shot at Kisiev and his son in the outskirts of Diseu village. Kisiev received three wounds and was urgently evacuated to the Republican Hospital in Tskhinval", reported the Interior Ministry.
Geneva discussions on security in South Caucasus are stalemated, reported the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement in his phone conversation with the RES Information Agency. The sides could reach any agreement at the 11th round of discussions in Geneva on the elaboration of a paper that would guarantee non-use of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. "The main issue focused upon at the discussions was the non-use of force. However, as it could have been expected the Georgian side and its supporters started a more openly express their viewpoint that there is no need in elaboration of the draft paper when there is already Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements. The representatives of Sakashvili's regime were backed by the US. Deputy Secretary of State Philip Gordon", reported Chochiev.
The South Ossetian Delegation left for Geneva to participate in the 11th round of discussions on security in the Caucasus. The Delegation is headed by the Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement to the President of RSO Boris Chochiev. As the Office of the Plenipotentiary informed the Info-Agency RES, the delegation includes the RSO Foreign Minister Murat Djioev, State Advisor Konstantin Kochiev, Plenipotentiary for Human Rights David Sanakoev and Deputy Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Merab Chigoev.
