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As they have informed at the south-ossetian part of JCC, on August, 15th the georgian police detained at an illegal (that is placed without the permission of the international Joint Control Commission on settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict) post and did not let pass a passenger bus, following the ossetian village Artsev. The reason of preventing from movement of the passenger bus the georgian policemen named the fact that there were three bags of flour, that had been bought by 45 passengers of the bus by sharing the cost.

The liquidation of illegal cuts on the site of the water-sluice Edis - Tskhinval, controllable by the georgian side, proceeds. The earlier held monitoring has confirmed that problems for water supply of Tskhinval create the numerous cuts into the water-sluice on the piece, passing through the georgian-populated villages Kemert - Kheiti. According to the mayor of Tskhinval Robert Guliev, «yesterday the georgian repair brigade under the direction of the ossetian experts liquidated 12 cuts into the water-sluice, 3 of which were more than 80 mm in diameter. The georgian side did not create any obstacles in carrying out of the repair works and even has given all the necessary technical equipment».

On the piece of the water-sluice Edis - Tskhinval, controllable by the georgian side, are found new illegal cuts, because of which the supply of potable water to Tskhinval practically has been completely stopped. Damages are revealed in the course of monitoring with the participation of the observers from JPKF and the Mission of OSCE in the georgian-populated villages Kemert, Zartsem and Kheiti.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of RSO has addressed the international organizations with the offer on carrying out of an international investigation of the attempts of committing terrorist acts by the Georgian special services.

The Deputy Prime-Minister of the Government of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission on settlement of the georgian-ossetian conflict from the south-ossetian side Boris Chochiev has sent a letter to the Co-chairman of JCC from the Russian side J. Popov, to the Co-chairman of JCC from the Georgian side D. Mandzhavidze, to the Co-chairman of JCC from the north-ossetian side M. Тkhostov, to the Head of the Mission of OSCE in Georgia R.Riv, to the Commander of JPKF the general-major M.M.Kulakhmetov, to the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Georgia V.Kovalenko, to the Ambassador of the USA in Georgia J.Teft, to the ambassador of Great Britain in Georgia D.MakLaren, to the Ambassador of Germany in Georgia P.Florae, to the Ambassador of France in Georgia F. Lefor and to the ambassador of Italy in Georgia F.Romano.

On August, 8th about 17:50pm from the post of the georgian police, located in the area of a dairy-commodity farm at a settlement Dvani, a shelling was conducted from a small arms and an automatic grenade cup discharge in the direction of a post of the peacekeeping forces from RNO-Alania «Mugut». The peace ossetian village Mugut has been simultaneously fired. During the shelling works on harvesting took place on the field and people were compelled to leave the combines and to find shelter in a safe place.

Water delivery to Tskhinval and the adjoining it villages has again sharply worsened. As the head of the administration of Tskhinval Robert Guliev has informed the correspondent of the agency "Res ", since yesterday no more than 10 % of the necessary amount of water is delivered to the town.

The South-Ossetian part of JCC is assured, that neither OSCE, nor the international community will not have any moral right to accuse the delegation of the South-Ossetian part of JCC that it has refrained from a trip to Tbilisi. It is spoken about in the official comment of the South-Ossetian part of JCC.

Georgia before the planned session of the Joint Control Commission has the next time replaced the co-chairman of JCC from the georgian side. Dmitriy Mandzhavidze, the assistant of the state minister of Georgia on settlement of conflicts, is appointed as a new co-chairman of JCC. The ossetian party regards this fact as one more proof that the actions of Georgia are aimed to fail the agreements reached for 15 years of a negotiating process, and the change-over to an active phase of realization of a business-project «Saakashvili-Sanakoev», one of the co-authors of which is the state minister of Georgia on settlement of conflicts David Bakradze.

«It is a well-planned provocation, and its aim is to divert the world community from the policy of state terrorism, carried out by Georgia on the territory of South Ossetia». The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokojty has declared about it, making comments on the fact of infringement of the air space by Georgia.