In a statement issued on July 9 the Russian Foreign Ministry accused Georgia of provoking tensions in the South Ossetian conflict zone.
?Georgia dispatches its special purpose units to the administrative border with the South Ossetia; sporadic shootouts occur in the conflict zone as well, that might lead to extremely negative consequences,? the statement reads.
Moscow called on the conflicting sides to resume the negotiations in the frames of the quadripartite Joint Control Commission, involving the Georgian, South Ossetian, Russian and North Ossetian sides.