S.Ossetia Backs JCC on the eve of Talks

South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity said in an interview with news agency RIA Novosti on October 21 that during the forthcoming session of the quadripartite Joint Control Commission (JCC) scheduled in Moscow for October 24-25, the South Ossetia side will defend the current format of negotiations as ?the most effective one.?
 
The JCC, which oversees the ceasefire in the South Ossetian conflict zone, involves negotiators from the Georgian, South Ossetian, Russian and Russia?s North Ossetian sides. Tbilisi describes this format as ?unfair? and seeks to change the current peace process arrangement.
 
?It should be clarified what makes Georgia insist on increasing the number of participants in the quadripartite JCC, as well as on increasing the role of OSCE, as of a participant in the negotiating process. Moreover, as far as I know, the Georgian side will offer to involve the United States as an observer,? Kokoity said.

?This initiative by the Georgian side is unacceptable, as the U.S. and OSCE politics in respect of a solution of the South Ossetian problem is stained by double-standards,? the South Ossetian leader added.

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