PROTOCOL # 36 OF EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE JOINT CONTROL
COMMISSION (JCC) ON GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Tskhinvali-Ergneti, 13-14 August
2004
Chairman:
Taimuraz Elmurzaevich
Kusov, State Advisor to the President of RNO-Alania, North-Ossetian Co-Chairman
of the JCC
Agenda:
1. Immediate measures
to restore peace in the area of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.
Resolution:
1. The Georgian and
South Ossetian sides to immediately cease fire starting from 00:00 August 14
2004 (a separate Ceasefire Protocol is enclosed);
2. To take note of the
below-listed preliminary agreements achieved at a meeting of heads of the
sides’ armed forces held in the frames of the JCC meeting :
à) to open the Ergneti-Kekhvi
section of the Transcaucasus Road with parallel patrolling of the section by
JPKF, also the Tskhinvali-Dmenisi and Tskhinvali-Vanati roads, for unimpeded
movement of people and goods, including humanitarian aid;
b) within
three days, to resolve issues of moving posts and withdrawing armed units that
the sides deployed without agreement with JCC and the JPKF Joint Command, in
the area of Kurta-Eredvi-Sarabuki-Kekhvi;
Resolutions of the
JPKF Joint Command about the movement and positioning of new JKPF posts shall
be submitted to the JCC for approval.
Upon achieving
agreements on this issue, control over their implementation shall be provided
by groups of military observers with involvement of OSCE military monitoring
officers;
c) to
position a JPKF post with observers from the three sides on the contact line
between the Georgian and South Ossetian armed units in the area of village
Sarabuki.
In parallel with
positioning the post, a direct contact shall be established between commanders
of these units before their withdrawal;
d) to
restore a RF peacekeeping post on the Eredvi-Vanati road positioned earlier by
a decision of the JPKF Joint Command, with military observers from RF and
Georgia;
e) no
later than in 2 weeks, the sides to start resolution of the issue concerning
withdrawal of the armed units deployed without agreement with the JCC and JPKF
Joint Command, from the conflict zone;
f) in parallel with
implementing paragraph e) of this item, the sides to agree the number of
militia/police stations necessary to ensure law and order and to provide for
public safety in settlements located in the conflict zone.
3. To take note of the
fact that on 15 August 2004 heads of armed forces of the sides in conflict will
start negotiating measures for implementing agreements listed in item 2 of this
Protocol.
4. Within seven days,
heads of armed forces of the sides in conflict shall submit to JCC for
consideration proposals for further steps to de-escalate tension in the
conflict zone
5. The issue of the
SCC re-starting its activities shall be discussed after the police posts
illegally deployed by the sides withdraw from the conflict zone.
6. To take note of the
JPKF Command’s proposal for deploying additional and moving the existing JKPF
posts.
The sides note
information of the North-Ossetian side of the JCC about the Georgian leadership’s
call to President of RNO-Alania A.S. Dzasokhov to provide assistance in
arranging a meeting of the RSO President E.Kokoity and Georgian Prime Minister
Z. Zhvania.
The JCC calls the
Russian and North Ossetian sides participating in the resolution of the
Georgian-Ossetian conflict to assist in preparing and holding the
above-mentioned meeting in the nearest terms.
T. Kusov
Meeting Chairman, North
Ossetian Co-Chairman of the JCC
(Archive of the OSCE