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The meeting of the Inter-Agency Commission (IAC) of the RF Government on support to rehabilitation and social and economic development of the Republic of South Ossetia will be held in Tskhinval on 30 September. “Upon the initiative of the South Ossetian side, the next meeting of the IAC will be held on the territory of South Ossetia. The discussion will focus on socially vital aspects. We are planning to discuss a number of serious concrete issues. We will also summarize interim results of the joint work implemented by power structures of South Ossetia and relevant ministries and agencies of the RF”, underscored Vadim Brovtsev, the RSO Prime Minister, - South Ossetia had completed the scope of works undertaken. Here, on the ground, we expect to show the results of our work, for the implementation of which funds had been allocated and we will set up the follow-up plan”.

A sitting of the RSO Government took place in Tskhinval. The sitting was presided by Vadim Brovtsev, the Prime-Minister. Alexander Zhmailo, the Minister for Economic Development, Murat Djioev, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Atsamaz Bichenov, the Minister of Justice, heads of district administrations and other Government officials attended the sitting.
Twelve questions were placed included into the sitting’s agenda, out of which three were left for further elaboration. During the sitting, the Government representatives heard the information from the Chairman of the State Committee of Architecture Dmitry Breusov on the concept of general plan of Tskhinval.

Arsen Gagloev, the Head of President’s Administration, introduced to the personnel the new Deputy Interior Minister, Head of Joint Staff Nikolay Kabisov. “Nikolay Kabisov has obtained a significant experience in the structures of the Interior Ministry and we repose our hopes in you. I am sure that your work will be fruitful”, said Gagloev.

On 24 September, Eduard Kokoity, RSO President nad Government officials paid a visit to Kvaisa. President had distributed tasks to cope with the consequences of the recent earthquake and to assist the affected population. The first Deputy Chairman of the Government Alexander Zelig was assigned to undertake control over the implementation of the reconstruction works in Kvaisa. Alexander Zelig told IA RES reporters about concrete steps to be taken upon President’s decision.
”President tasked us to elaborate a general plan for reconstruction in Kvaisa. We should thoroughly estimate the costs, terms of implementation of construction and mounting works. To meet this end, a commission went to the construction site. The commission includes Dmitry Breusov, the Chairman of the State Committee of Architecture to the Ministry of Economic Development, said Alexander Zelig.

South Ossetia suggested introducing new terms for the meetings of working groups within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM). As reported by the Head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM Merab Chigoev, the today’s meeting in the borderline village of Ergneti, the sides did not manage to come to an agreement on changes to the existing terms of the meetings, however after the meeting in Geneva on 17-18 September, the agreement on changes to the terms of the meetings was achieved.

A delegation of Government officials of the Republic of South Ossetia headed President Eduard Kokoity paid a visit to Djava district. The delegation included Stanislav kochiev, Parliament Speaker, the newly appointed First Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zelig, Interior Minister Valery Valiev, Head of Emercom Anatoly Bibilov, First Deputy Defense Minister Ibragim Gasseev, the Head of the State Committee for Reconstruction Zurab Kabisov and other officials.
As reported by RSO Government Press-Service, during this trip the delegation visited several sites in Djava district. In Kvaisa, President and Government officials visited Kirov school, had a meeting with population affected by the earthquake.

RSO President Eduard Kokoity visited reconstruction sites, the buildings destroyed during the Georgian aggression in August 2008. While this visit, he was accompanied by the Chairman of the Government Vadim Brovtsev, Chairman of the State Committee for Reconstruction Zurab Kabisov, the Director of “Direction for Implementation of Priority Project” Ismagil Karimov, as well as by representatives of contractor companies. President visited sites in Djava and Tskhinval districts of South Ossetia and private and municipal houses under reconstruction in Tskhinval city.

On 17-18 September, the seventh round of Geneva Discussions on security in the Caucasus took place. Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev told journalists about this round of talks and its results. According to him, “at the last two rounds of talks, our delegation’s priority issue was the non-use or threat of use of force”.
“It was hard to convince that it was necessary. All delegations had elaborated their drafts on this issue. A day before the meeting, the Co-Mediators had circulated these proposals and upon our arrival in Geneva we had already discussed them. We had firmly criticized them, since these drafts contained everything except security. During the discussion, the head of the Georgian delegation Giga Bokeria stated that Georgia was not going to sign any agreements with South Ossetia and Abkhazia”, said Chochiev.

If necessary, the Sberbank will be working on weekends to pay out compensations to the citizens of the Republic affected during the Georgian aggressions in August 2008, reported the Chairman of RSO Sberbank Board Felix Zasseev.
"Yesterday, we received new pending list with 700 names of citizens eligible for compensations. We immediately opened their personal accounts foreseen in the register. The lists were hung at the entrance to the bank and started the payouts", said Zasseev.

Today, the seventh round of Geneva talks on security in the Caucasus has started. One of the main topics for the discussion are agreements on non-use of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Georgia, that would become the main security guarantee for the two independent states.