PROTOCOL # 33 OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE JOINT CONTROL
COMMISSION (JCC) ON GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Chairman:
Mikhail
Vladimirovich Mayorov, Ambassador for Special Assignments of the Russian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, Russian Co-Chairman of the JCC
(...)
Agenda:
Current
situation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict and measures to
overcome the crisis.
Resolution:
With regard to the
critical situation in the conflict area and to the need of taking urgent measures
to stop escalation of tension and prevent re-escalation of the armed conflict,
the sides confirmed their intention to strictly follow the principle of
peaceful conflict resolution, stressed the unacceptability of using coercive,
economic or any other forms of pressure, pointed to the need for strictly
complying with the achieved agreements, fulfilling commitments, avoiding any
actions and statements that could destabilize the situation in the conflict
zone.
They confirmed their
commitment to the Joint Control Commission as the existing negotiating mechanism.
Particular attention
was paid to considering concrete steps for normalizing the situation in the
area of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. In this regard, the sides resolved as
follows:
1. to
address the leadership of the sides with a request for immediate measures to
prevent and avoid any coercive actions in the area of the Georgian-Ossetian
conflict;
2. to
immediately start implementation of decisions of the Extraordinary meeting of
the JCC Co-chairmen of June 2 2004;
3. the sides to take all necessary actions
to provide for unimpeded supply of
humanitarian aid for the conflict zone population, in line with existing
agreements;
4. taking
into account the tense situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict area, JCC to
start working permanently in Tskhinvali for operative resolution of problems,
until the situation is normalized;
5. to
take note of the sides’ proposals for the draft resolution presented for
further scrutiny at the JCC meeting on 14-15 July;
6. to
call mass media of the sides to refrain from disseminating untrue and
tendentious information about the situation in and around the area of the
Georgian-Ossetian conflict.
M. Mayorov
Meeting Chairman, Russian Co-chairman of the JCC
Paragraph 1.7 of Protocol ¹ 32 of the
Extraordinary meeting of the JCC Co-chairmen of June 2 2004 shall be subject to
further consideration.
(Archive of the OSCE