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Another meeting within the frames of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in the border village of Ergenti (Georgia).
As the Head of the South Ossetian Delegation Merab Chigoev reported to IA RES, representatives of South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia, OSCE and the EU Monitoring Mission (ECMM) in Georgia participated in the meeting.
"The meeting discussed the work of the Border-Guard Service of South Ossetia on defining the borderline. Participants of the meeting touched upon the incident, which occurred on November 25 near the village of Ditsi (Georgia). At a time when our official services were carrying out works on defining the state borderline in the vicinity of the village of Ered (Tskhinval district of South Ossetia) and Ditsi (Gori district of Georgia), a group of civilians of Georgian nationality came close to the boundary line and tried to prevent this work.

The international discussions in Geneva provide South Ossetia and Abkhazia with an opportunity to bring their position to the wider international community, said the OSCE Co-Chair Ambassador Nurgaliev after the meeting in Tskhinval with the Plenipotentiary of the President of South Ossetia for Post-Conflict Settlement.
He recalled that on December 2 in Astana after the 11-year break, the OSCE Summit took place.

On the working meeting of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of South Ossetia for Post-Conflict Settlement with the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Discussions on security in the Caucasus.
On December 8, a working meeting of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of South Ossetia for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev, Deputy Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of South Ossetia for Post-Conflict Settlement, Merab Chigoev and the State Advisor to the President of South Ossetia Konstantin Kochiyev with the Co-Chairmen of the Geneva Discussions on security in the Caucasus took place in Republic of South Ossetia.

On 8 December, the delegation of Co-Chairs of the Geneva Discussions on security in the Caucasus is visiting South Ossetia, reports the Office of the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement. The delegation includes the OSCE Co-Chairman Bolat Nurgaliev, EU Envoy Ambassador Pierre Morel, UN Co-Chair Antti Turunen, representative of the OSCE Secretariat Rasa Ostrauskaite, European Commission Senior Political Advisor Thierry Bechet, representative of the UNHCR Gulliermo Bettucci, and Giedrius Chekuolis, the OSCE 2011 Chairman-in-Office.

Statement by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity

In his recent speech in the European Parliament, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that he refused to use force to "restore the territorial integrity" of his country, and would not attack either the Russian "occupant" or their "puppets". If this statement is translated into common language, it would mean that Saakashvili promises not to use force against South Ossetia.

Astana OSCE Summit has taken place this week. After 11-year break, the Summit did not completed its intitial tasks, and it was impossible to develop a unified document to satisfy all the member states of the organization. Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Kazbulat Tskhovrebov comments on the results of the OSCE Summit in Astana.
What your evaluation of the OSCE Summit ? Did it bring any results?

The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity received the RF Minister of Regional Development Viktor Basargin paying a working visit to the Republic. The meeting was also attended by the Prime Minister of South Ossetia Vadim Brovtsev, Deputy Regional Development Minister of the RF Roman Panov, Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Elbrus Kargiev.
At the beginning of the meeting, Eduard Kokoity noted that after successful meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission, where important decisions were taken in relation to the future prospects of Russian-South Ossetian co-operation a lot had already been done.
"We are cooperating with the Ministry of Regional Development entrusted by Russian government to deal with this issue. Your today’s visit receives special attention in South Ossetia since it the end of the year and the comprehensive rehabilitation plan is about to complete, " said Eduard Kokoity.
Addressing Viktor Basargin, the President noted that it was thanks to Basargin’s personal involvement that the agreement was reached on allocation of funds for the construction of private housing in South Ossetia.

During the visit of the RF Minister of Regional Development to South Ossetia, the following documents were signed in Tskhinval: Minutes of the second session of the Intergovernmental Commission on economic and social cooperation between South Ossetia and Russia, the Terms of Interaction between the Ministry of Regional Development and the authorized body of the RSO to implement the investment program to promote socio-economic development South Ossetia in 2011. In addition, the investment program to promote socio-economic development of South Ossetia in 2011 was also signed.

The statement by the South Ossetian President's Commissioner for Human Rights David Sanakoyev at European Russian Forum in Brussels.

Boris Chochiev, the Chairman of the Commission of South Ossetia on delimitation and demarcation of the border with Georgia, held a working meeting. The Secretary of the Commission Merab Chigoev, Deputy Chief of the RF FSB Border-Guard Department in South Ossetia Roman Tkachenko, Deputy Head of the South Ossetian KGB Border Guard Department Robert Gazzaev, Head of Artsev village administration Lev Goiaev, Deputy Head of Artsev Interior Department, Tskhinval District, Vyacheslav Kudziev attended the meeting.