OSCE Monitors Released

Situation involving detention of two OSCE monitors has been resolved, according to the OSCE mission in Georgia.

“We dealt with the matter with the relevant parties and the situation is now over,” Martha Freeman, a spokesperson for the OSCE mission, told Civil.Ge. “We will continue looking thoroughly into the facts of the matter.”

The Georgian Interior Ministry reported earlier on February 10, that two OSCE observers were “kidnapped” by the South Ossetian militias on the Georgian side of the administrative border and taken to the breakaway region.

The authorities of the breakaway region, however, said that two OSCE monitors were stopped by the South Ossetian law enforcement officers when they crossed “the Georgian-South Ossetian border” and released shortly after checking their papers.

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