Annex 3 To Protocol # 23 Meeting of the Joint Control Commission
(JCC)
for the
Georgian-Ossetian Conflict Settlement.July 9, 2002
DECISION OF THE JOINT
CONTROL COMMISSION (JCC) FOR THE GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT SETTLEMENT On Regulating a Registration of the JCC
Meetings of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) for the Georgian-Ossetian
Conflict Settlement
The Joint Control
Commission (JCC) for the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict Settlement (JCC) has been
established in accordance with Article 3 of the Agreement on the Principles of
the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict Settlement, which was concluded and signed on
During ten years of
its functioning, there were some periods when the JCC’s activities were very
intense, and, unfortunately, there were periods of its business decline. On the
whole, some intensification and strengthening tendencies have been identified
in the activities of the JCC during the above-noted period. At the present
moment, the JCC has become a very efficient instrument of taking control over
the situation in the zone of the conflict as a whole, which was marked by the
international community to for a number of times.
Due to the
above-noted facts, it has become necessary to review and generalize the JCC working
experience, which, in its turn, will be impossible without regulating and
archiving the relevant documents in an appropriate manner. The main document of the JCC are protocols of its sessions
(meetings), which are attached by decisions made about particular directions of
its activities. These protocols are divided into three groups, which correspond
to three stages of the development of the JCC activities.
The first group: –
these are four protocols, which fall under the early stage of the JCC activities
(July-August 1992).
The second group: -
these are eleven protocols of the JCC meetings which deal with the period when
the functioning of the Commission was renewed after the long break between
1992-1994, which was related to the conflict in Abkhazia (covering the period between 1992-1994). Apparently, within the above-noted
period one or two sessions on average were held on an annual basis.
And finally, the
third group – these are seven protocols of the meetings of co-chairmen of the
JCC dealing with the last, the most intense period of its activities covering
the years between 2001-2002. It is pretty obvious to
see that the average frequency of the given sessions equaled 4 per year (i.e.
practically each quarter).
At the same time,
it is necessary to admit, that the above-noted three groups of protocols do not
find any differences neither from the formal (taking into account the status of
the decisions made pursuant to the provision of the JCC) nor conceptual points
of view (coverage of the topics under discussions based on which the decisions
are made).
Due to the
above-noted facts, with the purpose of regulating the registering and archiving
of documents of the JCC, is shall be expedient to combine the above-stated
protocols under the single numeration.
The joint control
commission decided:
1. The above-noted four early, and eleven
following sessions of the JCC, as well as seven meetings of co-chairmen shall
be named the sessions of the joint control commission and introduce the single
numeration for corresponding protocols in accordance with the following
enumeration:
Protocol # 1 –
Protocol # 1 dated
Protocol # 2 -
Protocol # 2 dated
Protocol # 3 –
Protocol # 3 dated
Protocol # 4 –
Protocol dated
Protocol # 5 –
Protocol # 1 dated
Protocol # 6 –
Protocol # 2 dated
Protocol # 7–
Protocol # 3 dated
Protocol # 8 –
Protocol # 4 dated
Protocol # 9 –
Protocol # 5 dated
Protocol # 10 –
Protocol # 6 dated
Protocol # 11 –
Protocol # 7 dated
Protocol # 12 –
Protocol # 8 dated
Protocol # 13 –
Protocol # 9 dated
Protocol # 14 –
Protocol # 10 dated
Protocol # 15 –
Protocol on the results of the meeting of co-chairmen of the JCC dated
Protocol # 16 –
Protocol # 11 dated
Protocol # 17 –
Protocol # 2 on the results of the meeting of co-chairmen of the JCC dated
Protocol # 18 – Protocol # 3 on the results of
the meeting of co-chairmen of the JCC dated
Protocol # 19 -
Protocol # 4 on the results of the meeting of co-chairmen of the JCC dated
Protocol # 20 –
Protocol # 5 on the results of the meeting of co-chairmen of the JCC dated February 28 –
Protocol # 21 –
Protocol # 6 on the results of the meeting of co-chairmen of the JCC dated
Protocol # 22 –
Protocol # 7 on the results of the meeting of co-chairmen of the JCC dated
2. The ordinal
number of 23 shall be assigned to the protocol of this session of the JCC and
all further sessions held on the top level of representation of parties in the
JCC, shall be numbered based on this fact, under the ordinal number of 24, and
then by progressive order.
3. The parties
shall introduce to their archives the numeration defined under paragraph 1 of
this Decision by indicating the new number in brackets after the old one, and
from this time onward, when making references to this
protocols, strictly follow the new numeration.
4. Recommend the
OSCE, UNHCR, the European Commission, other international organizations, as well
as mass media to take into account this Decision and when referring to the JCC
documents strictly follow its provisions.
On behalf of the
Georgian side
On behalf of the
South Ossetian side
On behalf of the
Russian Side
On behalf of the
North Ossetian side
In the presence of: the OSCE Mission European Commission
(Archive of the Staff of the State Minister of