JCC Session on South Ossetia Postponed

A session of the quadripartite Joint Control Commission over South Ossetia scheduled for September 5-6 in the North Ossetian capital Vladikavkaz has been postponed, apparently until mid-September, North Ossetian chief negotiator Murat Tkhostov told RIA Novosti news agency on September 5.

The JCC involves negotiators from the Georgian, South Ossetian, Russian and Russia?s North Ossetian sides.
 
?The postponement of the JCC session is no way linked to the [September 3] Georgian helicopter incident, but is caused by the schedule of the South Ossetian negotiator [Boris Chochiev],? Tkhostov said.
 
In August deputy PM of breakaway South Ossetia Boris Chochiev called for a postponement of JCC session, saying that the South Ossetian side will be unable to arrive in Vladikavkaz in time, but did not specify the reason.
 
?Currently we are discussing the issue of holding a session of the Joint Control Commission in the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali in mid-September,? the North Ossetian chief negotiator said.
 
During a recent JCC session held in Moscow on August 17-18 the Georgian, South Ossetian, Russian and North Ossetian sides failed to agree on ?key issues,? and as a result the sides decided to hold a second round of talks in Vladikavkaz.

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