Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia called on the Georgian side to abandon the course towards provoking a conflict and to refrain from any steps that could lead to an escalation of tension in the region, the Foreign Ministry said.
The Foreign Ministry is closely monitoring the situation associated with the provocative actions of Georgia in the border areas of the Republic of South Ossetia.
Elderly Eteri Gogaladze lovingly chills her husband. He wipes his eyes moist with tears with his palms. “Why did he bring me here from the village of Brolasan. Now I'm afraid for him, not for myself. I’m Georgian, maybe they won’t touch me, but I’m worried about Yura. They have lived here all their lives. And now it became restless in our quiet village. On the one hand, Georgians stand day and night, and on the other hand, Ossetians go armed. I feel sorry for them. Yesterday I made pita bread, there are pickles, cheese.
South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev told RIA Novosti that Georgia’s actions on the border with South Ossetia are aimed at seizing minerals, which, in his opinion, will then be transferred to foreign investors for development.
Deputy Chairman of the Government - Minister of Economic Development of South Ossetia Gennady Bekoev and Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade of the SAR Samer Al Khalil signed an agreement on opening trading houses in the Republic of South Ossetia and the Syrian Arab Republic, the press service of the Government of South Ossetia reported.
The signing of the document took place today as part of the official visit of the South Ossetian delegation to Damascus.
A technical meeting of the South Ossetian delegation with the Georgian party with the participation of representatives of the OSCE and the EU Observer Mission in Georgia (EUMM) ended in the Tsnelis village of South Ossetia, where the Georgian illegal roadblock was put up, the state television journalist Alan Tibilov told IA “Res. “
South Ossetia is demanding from the Georgian side to answer the question about the fate of the five citizens of the Republic who disappeared in August 2008, Murat Dzhioyev, Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement, said at a briefing in Tskhinval.
The South Ossetian side said that the situation on the border with Georgia is extremely tense, there is a threat to security not only in the district, but in the region as a whole. This was announced by the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the meetings within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (PRMI) Yegor Kochiev.
According to him, the meeting began in the morning at 10 o’clock, and ended at 15.00.
The South Ossetian party put forward a condition at a meeting in the framework of the IPRM to remove the roadblock until 6am Friday
South Ossetia at a meeting of participants of the IPRM (Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism) in the village of Ergneti demanded from Georgia to stop provocations at the border and remove the roadblock in the vicinity of the village of Tsnelis, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the meetings in the IPRM format, Yegor Kochiev, told reporters.
The mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia, together with the authorities of the Republic and the public organization “Hope and Memory”, has been constantly working to clarify the fate of the missing citizens , said at a briefing in Tskhinval the head of the department for protection of civilians of the representative office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Republic Rustam Alizade.
On Friday, in South Ossetia will be held the events to mark the International Day of Missing Persons, the head of the department for the protection of civilians of the representative office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Republic of Rustam Alizadeh said at a briefing in Tskhinval.