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Today, the second meeting of the working groups within the frames of the agreements reached at Geneva talks was held in the village of Dvani (Georgia) at the borderline with South Ossetia. Representatives of South Ossetia, Georgia, EU and OSCE participated in the meeting. According to the Deputy Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Merab Chigoev, the meeting was difficult and the discussion was tense.

Public announcements on the results of voting, interim and final results of the Parliamentary election will be made at the Informational Center “Parliamentary Election 2009”. Bella Plieva, the Chairperson of the Central Election Commission told this at the opening ceremony of the Center.

Today, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs is celebrating the 17th anniversary of its founding. The RSO President Eduard Kokoity congratulated the Foreign Ministry on this occasion. “Dear staff members of the Foreign Ministry, Let me congratulate you on your professional holiday. From its first day, the RSO MFA does a lot for the recognition of our republic and organization of various international events. The staff working today for the Ministry is certainly well-qualified and active. It is now important to provide significant support to the MFA and send people for studies.

The meeting at the State Committee for Implementation of Rehabilitation Projects in RSO was held by the Deputy Minister of Regional Development of the RF, Chairman of the Inter-Agency Commission Roman Panov. The South Ossetian side was represented by the Chairman of the State Committee for Implementation of Rehabilitation Projects in South Ossetia Zurab Kabisov, his first Deputy Vladimir Matveev, Head of Tskhinval City Administration Rober Guliev and the Chief Engineer of « Stavropolkraigaz » Vladimir Panpurin.

Compensation are paid out to citiznes of South Ossetia affected during the Georgian aggression in August 2008, reported a source in «Sberbank» of the RSO.
« In accordance with the lists approved at the RSO Government Presidium, 36,05 mil RUR were transferred to « Sberbank » to pay out compensations to affected inhabitants of our Republic. As of today, 859 persons had received compensations out of 927 on the list», reported the source in Sberbank.

More than 50 observers from 10 states will arrive to monitor the RSO Parliamentary election on 31 May, told the Chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Bella Plieva.

Within the frames of the election campaign, representatives of the "People's Party" held a meeting with the population of Djava District of the RSO. The Chairman of the Party Kazimir Pliev spoke about the Party's main policy trends and the vision of the republic's future.

Preparatory works for the unfolded reconstruction of houses damaged during the Georgian aggressions started in Tskhinval. Today, the first house had been demolished and cleaned up for a new house to be built. The Deputy Chairman of the RSO State committee on implementation of rehabilitation projects Vladimir Matveev reported this during the Committee session.

From the standpoint of big politics, an ordinary person and his life is something easily sacrificed for the sake of notorious "state's interests". The authorities of Georgia in this sense went farther than this carrying to absurdity their negligence towards common human values.
At all times, the last will of a perished was respected. When 38-year old cancer diseased Guram Kusraev asked to e buried in Tbilisi beside the grave of his father, the relatives had certainly promised him to fulfill his request. Guram died in few days.

The Georgian side had eventually changed its decision and let through the ambulance vehicle carrying the body of Guram Kusraev from Tskhinval to the burial place, told the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev.
"Our efforts brought results. Now, the will of the late Guram Kusraev can be fulfilled. We would like to express our appreciation to the international organizations which assisted us in settling this problem", added Boris Chochiev.