MPs Debate on Resolution on Peacekeepers

The Parliament launched debates on Wednesday over a draft resolution on the situation in the South Ossetian conflict zone and the Russian peacekeeping forces stationed there.

The draft resolution, which was presented at the session by MP Givi Targamadze, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security, instructs the government ?to revise the Sochi agreement from 24 June 1992 and to secure a replacement for the current peacekeeping operation in the former South Ossetian Autonomous District with an effective international peacekeeping operation.?

The Russian troops are stationed in South Ossetia as part of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces (JPKF), which also involves Georgian and Ossetian servicemen. The JPKF was set-up and stationed in the conflict zone based on a June 24, 1992 agreement. Then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin and then-Head of the Georgian State Eduard Shevardnadze signed this agreement in Russia?s resort city of Sochi.

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