A steering committing on the rehabilitation of the South Ossetian conflict zone meets in Tskhinvali on March 13 to review ongoing and planned projects.
The meeting brings together donors, including representatives from the EU, United States and Turkey, along with representatives from the Georgian, South Ossetian and Russian sides.
International donors pledged about EUR 8 million for rehabilitation of the conflict zone at an OSCE-hosted conference in Brussels last June.
The March 13 meeting in Tskhinvali will cover progress made in implementing ongoing projects, including business and agricultural training programmes, and will also review infrastructure projects that will focus on several schools of the conflict zone and also in Kvaisa, north of the breakaway region; as well as ways to improve the delivery of potable water to Tskhinvali and Tamarasheni, the Georgian village close to Tskhinvali, according to the OSCE Mission in Tbilisi, which is managing the programmes.
“The meeting underlines the international community’s commitment to continue co-operation and confidence-building measures in support of a peaceful resolution of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict,” Ambassador Roy Reeve, Head of the OSCE Mission, said.
Meanwhile, chief negotiators from the Georgian and South Ossetian sides plan to meet at an information session of the quadripartite Joint Control Commission (JCC), which also involves negotiators from the Russian and Russia?s North Ossetian sides, in Istanbul on March 21-23.
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