A meeting of the quadripartite Joint Control Commission (JCC), involving Georgian, South Ossetian, Russian and North Ossetian representatives, will be held in Tskhinvali, the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, on October 19.
The Russian Foreign Ministry?s special ambassador Valery Kenyaikin, who represents Russia at the JCC, has already arrived in Tbilisi. Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution Issues Goga Khaindrava, who represents the Georgian side in the JCC, as well as the Russian Foreign Ministry?s Special Ambassador, will participate in the meeting.
According to Khaindrava the Georgian side will push the issue of the shelling the Georgian villages in the conflict zone.
?The place and date of the forthcoming talks between Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and de facto President Eduard Kokoev will also be specified,? Khaindrava added.
The South Ossetian side plans to push the issue of fulfillment of protocol signed by the JCC during talks in Moscow on September 30-October 2.
?The Georgian side has not yet fulfilled its commitments undertaken during the Moscow talks. According to a signed protocol, the Georgian side must remove its unauthorized checkpoints from the conflict zone, as well as provide the scheme of the mine fields before October 20,? the statement issued by the Press and Information Committee of the unrecognized South Ossetian Republic reads.