Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze said on March 30 that Tbilisi’s proposal to set up a provisional administration in South Ossetia was one of the issues discussed during the meeting with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza.
“We are discussing all the details related with this very important initiative and we hope that not only our American, but also European friends will voice [position] about this very important peace initiative,” Nino Burjanadze said at a joint news conference with the U.S. official.
“For a few years we have urged our friends in the Georgian government to reach out everybody in South Ossetia all the residents in a constructive way, to make the rest of Georgia as attractive as possible,” Bryza said.
“Based on what I have heard from Madam Speaker, Minister Merabishvili, President Saakashvili, Prime Minister Nogaideli, I hear that that approach that we have been suggesting is what’s happening, it’s what’s being implemented now; it is an effort to use positive incentives – cultural, economic, political, jobs – to bring everybody closer,” he added.
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