The South Ossetian delegation called on the meeting in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms to return to a "concrete" agenda, Yegor Kochiev, the head of the South Ossetian delegation represented in the IPRM format, told reporters at the briefing.
The first meeting this year in the format of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms was held on Tuesday in the village of Ergnet, bordering South Ossetia and Georgia.
“We called on the parties to return to the agenda, in which we previously include specific issues. We made such a proposal at the previous meetings, but did not reach an understanding,” Kochiev said.
According to him, “with the beginning of the pandemic, the agenda of the meeting in the IPRM format has become blurred for some reason.”
“Earlier, each of the parties raised 4-5 issues that they considered the most relevant. We talked about specifics, for example, about a person who violated the border, the incident that occurred.
Today we managed to reach an agreement that the agenda can be revised, everything will depend on the co—moderators of the meeting - representatives of the European Union and the OSCE," Egor Kochiev stressed.
He added that “with the existing vague agenda, the South Ossetian delegation raises questions of interest to it, but sometimes it happens that the opponent finds it difficult to answer on a particular issue.”
Violation of the airspace of South Ossetia
According to Kochiev, the meeting also raised issues of violation of the airspace of South Ossetia by unmanned aerial vehicles from Georgia.
“The Georgian party claims that unmanned vehicles do not fly from their side. And our observers nevertheless fix them.
Border violations by representatives of the Georgian police were also discussed, the presence of armed people near the state border poses a threat, as a rule, these are hunters, but, nevertheless, an armed person is an armed person,” he has noted.
Humanitarian issues
Kochiev added that the South Ossetian and Georgian sides have some mutual understanding on certain humanitarian issues.
“For example, irrigation water was supplied throughout the entire irrigation season. We summed up some results of the year today at the meeting, and there is an understanding to discuss the same problems this year as well. Thanks to this agreement, the village of Tsinagar and neighboring villages receive irrigation water,” he said.
The next meeting in the IPRM format will take place on March 2.
