Parliamentarians from the opposition New Rights party have called for a temporary moratorium on ongoing reforms in the South Ossetian conflict zone until the new provisional administrative entity has been established there.
New Rights party members visited South Ossetia on April 23 and met Tbilisi-loyal alternative leader Dimitri Sanakoev and the local population.
?We proposed a meeting with [South Ossetian leader] Mr. Kokoity, but he refused for unclear reasons,? Irakli Iashvili of the New Rights party said in Parliament on April 24.
He said that the population and Sanakoev?s administration were well-disposed towards the Georgian authorities? plans for the creation of a provisional administrative entity in South Ossetia.
?However, the activities of the Georgian authorities are not coordinated in the region? Maybe, it would be better to impose a temporary moratorium on the reforms until the new administration is created there and then all these decisions will be delegated to this administration,? Iashvili said.
Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze admitted there was a lack of coordination ?because there is an administrative vacuum there, but I am sure that many problems will be settled as soon as the provisional administrative entity has been created.?
?We will continue reforms in this region; however, they will be more delicate than in other regions? I will acquaint both the president and prime minister, who will soon return to Georgia, with your opinion,? Burjanadze responded to Iashvili’s proposal.
She stressed that the authorities ?appreciate? the opposition?s active involvement in negotiations with all elements in South Ossetia.
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