Tskhinvali Rejects Tbilisi’s ‘New Proposals’

Deputy Prime Minister of breakaway South Ossetia Boris Chochiev said on March 7 that Tbilisi’s new proposals for the resolution of the South Ossetian conflict are “unacceptable,” the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported.
 
During his visit to the breakaway South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali on March 6, Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution Issues Merab Antadze submitted Tbilisi’s “set of proposals elaborated for a full-scale political resolution of the conflict,” according to the Georgian side. Officials in Tbilisi said that the document contains “new proposals,” but declined to elaborate on the details.

“There is nothing new in these proposals and they cannot be accepted even for consideration,” Chochiev said. He also did not go into detail about the proposals.

He said that the South Ossetian side is itself preparing new, “constructive proposals” that will be submitted to all members of the Joint Control Commission (JCC), a negotiating body that includes negotiators from the Georgian, South Ossetian, Russia’s North Ossetian, and Russian sides.

During talks with the visiting Georgian State Minister in Tskhinvali on March 6, the sides agreed to hold an informal “information session” of the JCC in Istanbul on March 21-23, Chochiev said.

Chochiev said that the along with other issues, the informal session will discuss the possibility of holding a plenary session of the JCC.

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