Tbilisi Says S.Ossetia Water Shortage Problem Remains

Six Georgian villages in the South Ossetian conflict zone still suffer from irrigation water shortage, the Office of the Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution Issues said in a statement on July 6.

It said the problem was caused by the South Ossetian side?s unwillingness to clean an irrigation channel.

?[South Ossetian secessionist leader Eduard] Kokoity?s regime has deployed militia in the village of Gujabauri, which are preventing Georgian workers from cleaning the channel,? the statement reads.

Georgian villagers had been blocking a road leading to the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, on July 2-4, demanding the South Ossetians resume irrigation water supply. The protesters dispersed late on July 4 after the water supply was restored.

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