South Ossetia

September 14, 2019 11:36

• After meeting in Ergneti, South Ossetia refuses to open Georgian border

  Georgia has refused to remove the block-post erected near the village of Tsnelis, but demanded from South Ossetia to open the border for the passage of residents of the pre-border regions, Irakli Antadze, the spokesman of the Georgian State Security Service (SSS), has stated. The South-Ossetian party will take steps to relieve tensions, if Georgia makes concessions, said Yegor Kochiev, the head of the South-Ossetian delegation.

September 12, 2019 13:54

• Political analysts approve Georgia's entry into NATO without resolving territorial disputes

  Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen invited Georgia to join NATO under such a mechanism that NATO's Article 5 on collective defence of member states would not cover Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian political analysts reacted positively to the initiative.

September 07, 2019 11:37

• Georgia condemns erection of new border checkpoint in South Ossetia

  Law enforcers have set up their checkpoint at a distance of less than two kilometres from the Georgian one, which became the subject of a border conflict. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has treated this as a compulsion to border demarcation. The OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) has supported Georgia by opposing the bordering process.

September 05, 2019 09:56

• South Ossetia is concerned about the Georgian police post near the border

  The Georgian block-post should not be built near the border, the South-Ossetian MPs have stated amid the construction works undertaken by the Georgian side near the village of Sinaguri. The post is being removed for the convenience of local residents, the Georgia's State Security Service (SSS) has explained.

September 04, 2019 10:30

• South Ossetia closes border with Georgia for holiday

  The checkpoints on the border with Georgia will be closed for two days on the occasion of the Day of Knowledge, the South-Ossetian State Security Committee (known as the KGB) has announced.

September 03, 2019 08:42

• South-Ossetia GPO treats Georgia's block-post as border violation

  In connection with the deployment of a Georgian block-post in the vicinity of the village of Tsnelis, a criminal case has been opened on the border trespassing, Uruzmag Djagaev, the head of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of South Ossetia, has stated.

August 31, 2019 13:15

• Georgia refuses to remove checkpoint from South-Ossetian border

  In its turn, South Ossetia will continue striving for fulfilment of its demand to liquidate the checkpoint, the presidential plenipotentiary for post-conflict settlement has assured.

August 30, 2019 09:47

• Georgian authorities reject accusations of violating demarcation line with South Ossetia

  The new Georgian police post is located near the village of Chorchana; and the Georgian jurisdiction covers this territory, the State Security Service (SSS) of Georgia has declared. The South Ossetia's statement is a tactical move in response to claims caused by the bordering, Mamuka Areshidze, a political analyst, believes.

August 29, 2019 23:54

• Conference participants in Tskhinvali tell about search for missing persons

  More than 130 residents of South Ossetia remain missing after the Georgian-South-Ossetian conflict. Several persons, who disappeared in 2008, were captured by Georgian law enforcers; the Georgian authorities should provide information about their fate, said Murat Djioev, the Presidential Plenipotentiary for the Post-Conflict Settlement.

August 29, 2019 15:38

• Authorities of South Ossetia deploy border guards in area of Georgian checkpoint

  Border guard patrols were deployed in the vicinity of the South Ossetian village of Tsnelis, not far from which the Georgian armed forces arranged a checkpoint. People from Georgia went to the village all summer and paved their way through the forest to the hill on which the checkpoint was arranged, local residents reported.

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