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The Russian peace-making operation is a unique one which by firm and harmonious actions promoted peace and stability in South Ossetia throughout many years. It has been declared by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity at the briefing in South Ossetia, speaking about a role of peacemakers in settling up the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. As he has said, each nation has immoral dates of its history.

The Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RSO

On July, 14, 2011 the Peacemaker Day is celebrated in the Republic of South Ossetia. This day 19 years ago on the basis of the Agreement "About principles of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict settlement", signed in Sochi on June, 24, 1992 by Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia and North Ossetia, peacekeeping forces as a part of three motor-rifle battalions from Russia, Georgia and Ossetia (the Mixed forces on supporting peace) entered into a zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict; they promoted cessation of the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia lasting since 1989, cease-fire and was the guarantor of peace and stability in the region for many years.

Today, on July, 14, South Ossetia is celebrating one of the most significant dates of the modern history - entering the mixed forces on supporting peace into the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. Today is 19 years from the beginning of the peace-making operation with a unique format (except the Russian contingent, the mixed forces on supporting peace also included the Ossetian and the Georgian battalions). The peacemakers entered into the conflict zone on July, 14, 1992. By this moment thousands civilians have become the victims of three-year aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia, 117 Ossetian villages have been burnt, more than 100 thousand Ossetians have been expelled from their houses. Tskhinval found itself in a siege, the defenders of the town were repulsing the daily attacks of the Georgian army, and the fights became more and more hardened and bloody.

The European Union Observers Mission in Georgia has received confirmation of the Interior Ministry of Georgia that shooting in the village Knolevi (Georgia) which led to death of Nino Koberidze, was not carried on from the territory of South Ossetia. This information has been placed in the official site of the Observers Mission in Georgia.

The institute of analysis and resolution of conflicts at the George Mason University has held the ninth meeting between representatives of the Georgian and the South-Ossetian civil societies from 8 to 10 July, 2011 in Istanbul. According to the press release results of the meeting, this time 26 participants took part in the informal meeting, including representatives of the international and non-governmental organizations, and also advisers of the Great Britain Foreign Ministry and the Agency on the USA international development. All those present took part in the meeting as private persons and did not represent interests of any organizations.

Khasieva Manya Nikolaevna, 1931 d.b., an inhabitant of Tskhinval
I recollect the days of the August war 2008 with horror. I am already 80 years old, I have seen much during my life, but I can’t stop being astonished at brutality and boundless aggression of Georgia hitherto. On the night of August, eighth, 2008 the war began, explosions were resounded.

Ukraine – is not the country, which recognition is vital for South Ossetia, -the expert Inal Pliev has declared the news agency "Res", making comments on the statement of the director of the informational policy department of the Ukraine Foreign Ministry Oleg Voloshin that «Ukraine will not recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed Abkhazia and South Ossetia».

On July, 11, approximately at 20:00 o’clock in the evening, the shooting incident took place, in the result of which the citizen of Georgia was killed. It has happened in the village Knolevi (Georgia) in close proximity to the border of the RSO.

The executive personnel of the Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on postconflict settlement has started gathering materials for taking the matter to the international court against the office of the OSCE Mission in Tskhinval. It has been informed the informational agency "Res» by the Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on post conflict settlement Boris Chochiev. «We have the facts testifying that during the war in August, 2008 representatives of the OSCE Mission in Tskhinval did not allow even children to find asylum in the bunker of their building», - Chochiev has underlined. As he has said, such inhuman act on the part of the OSCE observers, undoubtedly, deserves condemnation.

On July, 7, 2011 the citizens of Georgia, detained by the law enforcement bodies of the RSO in Leningorskiy region of the Republic, were expelled from South Ossetia. It has been reported to the informational agency "Res" at the press-service of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in the RSO.