The Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) remains the most important format for resolving humanitarian issues and achieving predictability and stability in the region, the OSCE Co-Chair Viorel Moshanu said on Thursday.
The meeting of the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions with the South Ossetian delegation took place on Thursday in Tskhinval.
The Geneva discussions have no alternative as a negotiating platform that provides a direct dialogue between Tbilisi and Tskhinval, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva discussions Konstantin Kochiev said at the meeting of the South Ossetian delegation with the OSCE, UN and the EU. co-chairs
The meeting was held on Thursday in the capital of South Ossetia.
Negotiations within the framework of the Geneva discussions
On Thursday, the first meeting of the South Ossetian delegation this year with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasus is taking place in the capital of South Ossetia.
The international delegation has included the OSCE Co-Chair Viorel Moshanu, the EU Co-Chair Toivo Klaar, the UN Co-Chair Cihan Sultanoglu, the EU staff member Bjorn Kuehne, the OSCE staff member Siegfried Weber, the UN staff member Christoph Bierwirth and others.
The Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia, the 56th round of which was to be held at the end of March, have been put on hold on the initiative of the troika of co-chairs representing the UN, the EU and the OSCE, Konstantin Kochiev, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva discussions, told reporters.
The agenda of the IPRM has not changed for a long time, and the main issues of the dialogue remain security and the situation in the area of the village of Uista (former Tsnelis), where a few years ago Georgian policemen set up the illegal post in South Ossetia. This was announced by the head of the delegation Yegor Kochiev at the end of the 106th meeting of the IPRM format.
COVID and IPRM
The Georgian side does not carry out preventive work with the population of Georgia, and therefore the number of Georgian citizens who violate the state border of South Ossetia does not decrease, - said the head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM Egor Kochiev, commenting on the results of the next meeting.
He believes that people should be explained that there is a state border, and that if it is violated, they will be detained and face the justice of the Republic of South Ossetia.
A regular meeting in the format of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms is being held in the village of Ergnet bordering South Ossetia, the press service of the Presidential Plenipotentiary's Office for Post-conflict Settlement told the “Res” news agency.
“At the 106th meeting of the IPRM, it will be will discussed security issues, as well as the situation in the border zone, - violators of the state border and drone flights,” they noted.
The format within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) will work as usual, despite the current situation in the world, said the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Egor Kochiev.
According to the head of the South Ossetian delegation, the date of the next round of April 12 was approved at the last IPRM meeting, and there is no information about the changes yet.
The meeting scheduled for the end of March within the framework of the Geneva discussions has been postponed indefinitely, Konstantin Kochiev, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the talks, State Adviser to the President of South Ossetia, told the IA “Res”.
"The date and format of the negotiations within the framework of the Geneva discussions will be discussed later," Kochiev has specified.
Security issues and the situation in the area of the South Ossetian village of Uista, where a few years ago Georgian policemen had set up an illegal post, became the topic of discussion at the 105th meeting in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms, said the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Deputy Presidential Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict settlement Egor Kochiev.
