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South Ossetia declares that it has warned the representatives of the EU Mission of observers about possible infringements of the state border in Dzausky region of the Republic on June, 18-19, 2011 in good time. As the representative of the President of the RSO on post conflict settlement Merab Chigoev has informed the news agency "Res", the corresponding statement was made during the next meeting of mechanisms on prevention of incidents in the village Dvan on June, 17.

Russia has not simply fulfilled, but has exceeded the obligations within the frames of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan. It has been declared the news agency "Res" by the Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on post conflict settlement Boris Chochiev, making comments on the statement of the speaker of the Georgian Parliament David Bakradze that Russia is forced to fulfill the taken obligations. «The Russian peacemakers will have to leave their stationing places only after a legally obliging document of non-use of force by Georgia against South Ossetia and Abkhazia is adopted», - Chochiev has said, having added that Russia exceeded the obligations within the frames of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, having withdrawn its troops from the positions occupied by them before the August war. Chochiev has noticed that today, considering this fact, South Ossetia has to ask the international community to force Georgia to sign the legally obliging document on non-use of force. As regards the statement of Bakradze about «strengthening of the international monitoring in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and also about the withdrawal of the Russian military bases from these republics», Chochiev has declared that, under the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement, the full withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping troops from the zones adjoining to South Ossetia and Abkhazia will be carried out within ten days after expansion of the international mechanisms in this area. «We mean the area adjoining to South Ossetia, but not the territory itself, - the Plenipotentiary has specified. - so I advise Bakradze to read these documents better and more attentively».

The Deputy Editor-in-chief of the South-Ossetian political newspaper "South Ossetia" Merab Zasseev will take part in the V International forum of Mass-media «Interaction in the general interests» which will take place in Maykop on June, 23-25. The organizers of the forum are the Adygei Committee on Affairs of Nationalities, Relations with Compatriots and Mass-media with the assistance of the Union of Journalists of Adygea. As the participant of the forum Merab Zasseev has informed the news agency «Res», the representatives of the South Ossetian print mass-media have been taking part in the forum in the course of two years.

Investigative actions are being conducted in regard to the citizens of Georgia, arrested for illegal crossing of the frontier of the RSO. On Saturday, June, 18 four citizens of Georgia have been detained near the village Koz in Dzauskiy region of the RSO; six more their fellow citizens have also been detained at the same place on Sunday on June, 19. As the news agency "Res" has been informed by the press-service of the Committee for State Security (KGB) of South Ossetia, the citizens of Georgia penetrated into the territory of the RSO for one and a half kilometer.

Today the working meeting within the frames of Mechanisms on prevention and reaction to incidents has taken place in the frontier Georgian village Dvani. As the Deputy Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on post conflict settlement Merab Chigoev has informed the news agency "Res", the representatives of South Ossetia, Russia and Georgia have taken part in the meeting, with the assistance of the EU observers and the co-chairman of the Geneva discussions from OSCE.

The working meeting of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity and the Deputy Minister for regional development of the Russian Federation Sergey Vereshchagin has taken place at the Ministry of regional development of the Russian Federation. It has been informed the news agencies "Res" at the press-service of the President and the government of the RSO.

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has taken part in the ceremonial meeting on the occasion of the 50 anniversary of the International Public Foundation «Russian Peace Fund», taken place in the Hall of Columns of the Union House in Moscow. As the news agency "Res" has been informed at the press-service of the President and the government of the RSO, at the beginning of the meeting the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation Alexander Beglov has announced a greeting of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Today the next meeting within the frames of Mechanisms on prevention and reaction to incidents will take place on the Georgian-Ossetiaт border in the village Dvan. As the Deputy Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on post conflict settlement Merab Chigoev has informed the news agency "Res", the representatives of South Ossetia, Russia and Georgia will take part in the meeting, with the assistance of the EU observers and the co-chairman of the Geneva discussions from the OSCE.

The statement of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia Grigol Vashadze that his country does not intend to leave a format of the Geneva discussions is «the next trick of the Georgian leadership». It has been declared the news agency "Res» by the Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on the post conflict settlement Boris Chochiev. «It turns out that Vashadze hasn`t known about the announcement of his assistant Sergey Kapanadze that Georgia does not see any sense in participating in the Geneva discussions any more. Kapanadze cites as if Russia carries out some acts of terrorism against Georgia», - the Plenipotentiary has said. He has noticed that the similar statement were made by the Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia, the head of the Georgian delegation in a format of the Geneva discussions Giga Bokerija who, however, has denied subsequently his own words.

The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has called the people and the deputies of the Parliament of the Republic to the unity. It is told in the today’s appeal of the head of the state. Here is a full text of the appeal. - Dear friends! For many years we have been fighting for the freedom of our people shoulder to shoulder.