Georgian Foreign Minister, OSCE Chairman Discussed JCC Session

During a phone conversation on November 17, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili and OSCE Chairman-in-Office Dimitrij Rupel, who is also the Slovenian Foreign Minister, discussed recent talks over South Ossetia in frames of the Joint Control Commission (JCC), held in Ljubljana on November 15-16, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reported.

?[The Ministers] expressed their regret over the fact that the meeting had no successful outcome. The Georgian Minister noted that the peacekeeping and JCC formats introduced in 1992 have exhausted every last possibility and therefore need to be substantially transformed,? an information note issued by the Georgian Foreign Ministry reads. 

According to the Georgian MFA, the OSCE Chairman-in-Office stressed that this meeting, judging from its results, ?offers a gloomy outlook for serious progress within the given format.?

The Georgian Foreign Minister said during the conversation that ?the unconstructive position of the Ossetian side? backed by ?Russia?s outspoken support? hampers the conflict resolution process.

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