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189171
Fri, 06/17/2011 - 08:14
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Trilateral meeting to discuss EU illegal activity in S Ossetia
TSKHINVAL, June 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Illegal activities of European
observers, who make video recording of South Ossetia from Georgia's
territory, will be discussed by a trilateral meeting /Russia, South
Ossetia, Georgia/ in the framework of the Mechanisms to prevent and react
to incidents, which will be organised in Georgia's Dvani village.
The meeting will feature EU observers and a co-chair of the OSCE
Geneva discussions, head of South Ossetia's delegation Merab Chigoyev told
Itar-Tass.
"Every episode of video recording and monitoring the territory of
South Ossetia has been fixed by South Ossetian and Russian services,
guarding the border," he said. "We consider this activity illegal, excess
of the mandate and we shall demand it stopped."
South Ossetian delegation will also initiate an issue of massive
violations of the border by Georgian citizens and an issue of Georgia's
blocking border-crossing stations.
"We are worried about the fact that civilians are blocked from
entering or leaving Georgia, though the Georgian side continues to claim
it is the South Ossetian side who block the border," he said.
South Ossetia will once again pay attention to the problem which has
been on agenda of various meetings - the fate of South Ossetian citizens
who are considered missing persons. The country will suggest discussing an
opportunity of exchanging persons under investigation and those imprisoned.
"A similar procedure took place last time in February of the current
year, and today it is necessary to continue this process," Chigoyev said.
South Ossetian ombudsman David Sanakoyev said that presently about 30
citizens of South Ossetia are imprisoned in Georgia, while about ten
Georgians are in prisons of South Ossetia.
Meetings of the Mechanisms to prevent and react to incidents, which
are organised regularly in Georgia's Dvani village, comply with decisions
of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia, which followed the
Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements.
The discussions feature representatives of Russia, South Ossetia,
Abkhazia, Georgia, the USA, EU, UN and OSCE.
observers, who make video recording of South Ossetia from Georgia's
territory, will be discussed by a trilateral meeting /Russia, South
Ossetia, Georgia/ in the framework of the Mechanisms to prevent and react
to incidents, which will be organised in Georgia's Dvani village.
The meeting will feature EU observers and a co-chair of the OSCE
Geneva discussions, head of South Ossetia's delegation Merab Chigoyev told
Itar-Tass.
"Every episode of video recording and monitoring the territory of
South Ossetia has been fixed by South Ossetian and Russian services,
guarding the border," he said. "We consider this activity illegal, excess
of the mandate and we shall demand it stopped."
South Ossetian delegation will also initiate an issue of massive
violations of the border by Georgian citizens and an issue of Georgia's
blocking border-crossing stations.
"We are worried about the fact that civilians are blocked from
entering or leaving Georgia, though the Georgian side continues to claim
it is the South Ossetian side who block the border," he said.
South Ossetia will once again pay attention to the problem which has
been on agenda of various meetings - the fate of South Ossetian citizens
who are considered missing persons. The country will suggest discussing an
opportunity of exchanging persons under investigation and those imprisoned.
"A similar procedure took place last time in February of the current
year, and today it is necessary to continue this process," Chigoyev said.
South Ossetian ombudsman David Sanakoyev said that presently about 30
citizens of South Ossetia are imprisoned in Georgia, while about ten
Georgians are in prisons of South Ossetia.
Meetings of the Mechanisms to prevent and react to incidents, which
are organised regularly in Georgia's Dvani village, comply with decisions
of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia, which followed the
Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements.
The discussions feature representatives of Russia, South Ossetia,
Abkhazia, Georgia, the USA, EU, UN and OSCE.
