PROTOCOL # 1 OF THE MEETING OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON FACILITATION OF THE VOLUNTEER RETURN OF REFUGEES AND IDPS AS A RESULT OF THE GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT TO THE PLACES OF THEIR FORMER PERMANENT RESIDENCE

October 21, 1997, city of Vladikavkaz.

Chairman:

Jigkaev Georgii Antonovich – state advisor of the President of the Republic of North-Ossetia –Alania, head of the North Ossetian side of the JCC.

Agenda of the meeting:

1. Organizational issues.

The floor was taken by: Jigkaev, Machavariani, Chochiev, Kabolov, Kachmazov, Kabisov, Koshtel, Andrew, and Olsen.

It was decided:

1. To take note of the membership of the Committee from the side of the Republic of North-Ossetia –Alania, the Republic of the South Ossetia and the statement of the Georgian side that the membership of the Georgian side of the Committee will be assigned for the next meeting of the committee of the JCC.

2.  To approve the form of application (attached).

3.  To accept the proposal of the UNHCR on readiness to provide technical assistance in the exchange of information among the sides on realization of “the Regulations….”

4. The sides shall endorse their representatives in the membership of the secretariat of the committee of the JCC.

5. The next meeting of the committee of the JCC shall take place in Tbilisi, November 18, 1997 with the following agenda: “implementation of the regulations…”

Chairman of the meeting,

Head of the North Ossetian side of the JCC G. A. Jigkaev.

(Archive of the Staff of the State Minister of Georgia on Conflict Settlement)