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10 citizens of Georgia detained for illegal crossing of the frontier of South Ossetia on June, 18-19, 2011 have been expelled from the Republic of South Ossetia. Their transference has taken place on the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia between the town Tskhinval and the village Ergnet. The violators in the presence of press have informed the representatives of the Georgian force structures receiving them that while being under arrest the employees of the South-Ossetian frontier service and law enforcement bodies treated them exclusively politely, fed them well, supplied them with cigarettes, and during deportation have returned all their personal things withdrawn at detention in safe and sound.

The analysis of the recent years` events allows telling that the world has been learning more truth about the Georgian aggression of August, 2008 against South Ossetia Everybody knows well the main conclusion of the Report of the European Union independent commission, established after the August war and led by the Swiss diplomat Heidi Taliavini that Georgia has launched the war. Among the recent publications it would be remarkable the interview of the ambassador of France in Georgia Eric Furnje to the Georgian magazine "Tbilisebi" where he has made Georgia: responsible for the war launching: «you cannot rewrite history and search for responsibility in some other place, instead of its real location». What is much more important thing, that first for a long time the high rank European politician has mentioned a subject of genocide of the Ossetian people on the part of the Menshevist Georgia in the twenties of the last century.

On June, 22, 2011 the Dzausky district court has delivered a judgment of expelling ten Georgian citizens who on June, 18 and 19 of the current year were detained by the South-Ossetian frontier guards next to the village Koz in Dzausky region of the Republic of South Ossetia for illegal crossing of the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia.

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.