STATEMENT OF THE COCHAIRMEN OF THE JOINT CONTROL COMMISSION ON GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Tbilisi, 14 May 2004

Cochairmen of the Joint Control Commission have considered a wide range of issues pertaining to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict resolution.

The meeting participants note with satisfaction the confirmation by sides in the conflict of their firm intention to strictly keep to political methods of resolving the Georgian-Ossteian conflict, by excluding any forms of coercive pressure in the process of settling the relations between the sides, and to strictly implement the agreements achieved.

The JCC Cochairmen request the Georgian side to call participants of the forthcoming Russian Business Conference in Georgia to use the potential of business communities in implementing the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Georgia on Cooperation in Economic Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in the Zone of Georgian-Ossetian Conflict and on Refugee Return of December 23, 2000.

It has been decided to conduct the JCC plenary meeting in Tbilisi on 1-3 June 2004.

(Archive of the OSCE Mission to Georgia)