Tbilisi withdraws from its agreements with Ossetians

Normal0Tbilisi/Agency Caucasus – The Georgian administration announced unilateral withdrawal from all of its agreements with South Ossetia. 

Georgia has terminated all of its agreements that it has so far made with South Ossetia in order to bring a peaceful solution to the problems, Georgia’s State Minister for Reintegration Temur Iakobashvili said. The Joint Control Commission set up in 1992 to settle the Georgian-Ossetian question peacefully was terminated, said Iakobashvili. “The Georgian administration has decided to bring the service of Russian peace-keeping forces in South Ossetia to an end, which requires Russia to withdraw all of its peace-keeping forces from the region.”

 

Georgia supported a peace plan drafted in compliance with a treaty of six articles that was brokered by France, said Iakobashvili.

 

The region hosted, prior to the outbreak of the war, joint troops of peace-keeping forces from Russia, Georgia and Ossetia in order to maintain security and stability.

 

FT