PROTOCOL # 45 OF THE MEETING OF THE JOINT CONTROL COMMISSION
(JCC) ON GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Chaired by:
Valeri Fedorovich
Keniaykin, Russian Co-Chairman of the JCC, Ambassador for Special Assignments
of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
(…)
Agenda äķ˙:
1. On current
situation and perspectives of the conflict settlement process in the
Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.
JPKF activities and
interaction of military and law-enforcement agencies of the sides.
2. On Invitation of
OSCE Chairman-in-Office D. Rupel to hold a JCC meeting in Ljubljana in November
this year.
3. On Socio-economic
rehabilitation of the conflict zone.
Resolution:
1. On Current
situation and perspectives of the conflict settlement process in the
Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.
JPKF activities and
interaction of military and law-enforcement agencies of the sides.
(Keniaykin, Khaindrava,
Chochiev, Kusov, Kulakhmetov, Kublashvili, Friev, Reeve, Vantomme)
The meeting
participants noted recent escalation of the situation in the conflict zone
following deployment of heavy equipment in the conflict area and mortar
shelling of Tskhinvali on September 20 2005 that resulted in casualties among the
civil population.
Implementation of
earlier adopted JCC decision is very slow. The process of the conflict zone
demilitarization that started earlier is now suspended.
The decision on
arranging the meeting and the efforts made by the Russian side with a view to re-activating
the JCC witness to the parties’ interest in conflict resolution.
1.1. To take note of the Report by Major General M.M. Kulakhmetov, JPKF
Commander, about the situation in the conflict zone (enclosed).
1.2. To note that the
three-stage conflict resolution scheme is the real basis for peaceful process
development (first stage being demilitarization of the conflict zone and
re-building of trust; second stage – socioeconomic rehabilitation of the
conflict zone; third stage – political settlement), supported by heads of the sides
in conflict – M.H. Saakashvili’s speech at the 59th session of the
UN GA, statements by E.D. Kokoity.
1.3. With a view to
develop measures directed at furthering the peaceful process, to suggest
holding a meeting between E.D. Kokoity and Z.T. Nogaideli in the nearest
future.
1.4. In compliance
with proposals of the South Ossetian side, also with JCC decision of June 22-23
2005 (Protocol no. 44), to speed up organization of the meeting between heads
of law-enforcement agencies of the parties participating in the resolution of
the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, with a view to develop a complex of measures
for fighting crime in the conflict zone and re-activating the SCC. The JCC
Working Group for law-enforcement agencies together with OSCE shall study the
possibility of inviting international experts for investigating the facts of
citizens detention by law-enforcement bodies of the parties.
1.5. Further to the
agreement achieved in Sochi on November 5 2004, to call the parties’ leadership
to assist in conducting meetings of parliamentarians of the sides,
representatives of public organizations and the intellectuals at the beginning
of 2006.
1.6. In view of
provisions of the Russian-Georgian inter-governmental Agreement on Cooperation
in Economic Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in the Zone of Georgian-Ossetian
Conflict and on Refugee Return of December 23 2000, to call the sides
participating in the settlement process to start developing a concept for a
free economic zone.
1.7. Acting in
compliance with
1.8. The joint
investigative team set up in compliance with JCC decision of June 22-23 2005,
with participation of the OSCE Mission, to finalize criminal investigations based
on the existing information concerning the mortar shelling of Tskhinvali on
September 20 2005.
1.9. To the request of
the Georgian side, to consider the issue of enabling senior military chief of
the Georgian side and the OSCE senior military officer to fulfill their duties within
the entire area of JPKF responsibility.
2. On Invitation of
OSCE Chairman-in-Office D. Rupel to hold a JCC meeting in Lubliana in November
2005.
(Keniaykin, Kusov,
Khaindrava, Chochiev, Reeve)
2.1. JCC is grateful
to accept the invitation of OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Slovenian Minister of
Foreign Affairs D. Rupel to hold a JCC meeting in
2.2. Sides of the
Joint Control Commission to propose their draft agendas for the forthcoming
meeting in
3. On Socio-economic
rehabilitation of the conflict zone.
(Reeve, Tibilov, Volsky, Vantomme, Chochiev)
3.1. To note the work
conducted by the Organizational Committee for implementation of the Third
Program of the Conflict Zone Rehabilitation funded by the European Commission.
3.2. The meeting
participants note the unjustified delay in the terms of implementing separate
subprojects of the Program and in this regard call OSCE (Reeve) and European
Commission (Vantomme) to speed
up their implementation by the UNDP Program management.
3.3. In the frames of
authorized JCC Co-chairmen meetings (so-called Thursday meetings), to stimulate
the work of the sides’ commissions on using disputable lands in the conflict
zone.
3.4. to provide
assistance in the implementation of a three-month Needs Assessment program in
the area of economy.
V. Keniaykin
Meeting Chair, Russian Co-chairman
of the JCC
(Archive of the OSCE