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Georgia Pulled Out of Agreements on Ossetian Conflict Settlement
Georgia has unilaterally pulled out of agreements on settlement of the conflict in South Ossetia, News Georgia reported.
Amid other things, this decision means Georgia has withdrawn from the Joint Control Commission set up under the agreement of 1992, specified Georgian Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili.
The activities of commission, where South Ossetia, North Ossetia and Russia are members in addition to Georgia, were halted far back in 2007, as Georgia has been refusing to attend its sittings ever since, reasoning that its format is out of date and hinders actual settlement of the conflict.
Under the decision of official Tbilisi, the commission, its resolutions and the mandate of Joint Peacekeeping Forces were annulled, Interfax reported with reference to Yakobashvili. Therefore, Russia’s troops in Georgia lost their peacekeeping status and should immediately pull out of the country, the minister said.
Earlier, Georgia’s parliament and government annulled the mandates of Russia’s peacekeepers in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and declared the republics the occupied territories.
Russia claims that, in conformity with the ceasefire deal, its military left Georgia August 22. But the peacekeepers are still there, positioned in the territories adjacent to the conflict area. The standing of Tbilisi is that the peacekeeping status of those divisions has lost validity and their presence is occupation.
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