Annex 1 To Protocol #30 of the JCC Session dated April 16, 2004

PROVISION On Information Bulletin of joint Control Commission for the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict Settlement

1. General Provisions

The information bulletin of the JCC (hereafter referred to as the Bulletin) shall be an official publication of the JCC for the Georgian-Ossetian conflict settlement.

The Bulletin shall be a non-commercial issue and shall be distributed on a free-of-charge basis.

2. Goals and Objectives

Publication of the bulletin shall be carried out for the purpose of distribution of information about the process of peaceful settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, activities of the JCC and its structural subdivisions, the JPKF, the events taking place in the zone of conflict, activities of the Special Coordination Center for mutual activities of law enforcement organs of the parties to keep law and order, the process of return of refugees and IDPs, assistance to the population residing in the zone of conflict on the part of foreign states regional and international organizations. One of the tasks of the Bulletin shall be establishment of backward-connection of the community of the parties being evolved in the process of negotiations regarding settlement of the conflict.

3. Editorial Board

The Editorial Board shall carry out general management of the issuance of the Bulletin. The editorial board shall consist of cochairmen of the JCC. Head of the Mission of the OSCE in Georgia, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Georgia, regional representative of the Chief Commander of UN for the Refugee Affairs in Georgia shall participate in the work of the editorial board with the right of deliberative vote.

4. Editorial Staff. Activities of the Editorial Staff

The editorial staff shall consist of two co-editors (from South Ossetia and Georgian parties each) who, by recommendation of cochairmen of the JCC from the respective parties, shall approve decisions of the JCC. The editorial staff shall also consist of two journalists (from South Ossetia and Georgian parties each) and two persons in charge of preparation of the Bulletin (from South Ossetia and Georgian parties) appointed by Heads of respective parts of the JCC.

The editorial staff, in its activities, shall be guided by decisions of the JCC and the present provision.

Co-editors shall be responsible for organization, formation and issuance of bulletins.

Co-chairmen of the JCC shall approve formation of a cover page of a bulletin. The cover of a bulletin shall be attractive for readers.

Co-editors of a bulletin shall form a thematic plan of the next issue of the bulletin and respective plans-objectives for journalists and sent them for approval to the Editorial Board. Approved plan-objectives shall be submitted to journalists for fulfillment. Co-editors shall form a model of a bulletin and then present it for approval to the editorial board (through fax, e-mail). After approving the model of a bulletin, it shall be sent to the printing house for printing the issue where printing of translations in English, Georgian, Ossetian) shall be provided too.

The Bulletin shall be printed on А4 format paper on 20-24 pages.

The size of the issue of the bulletin shall be defined under the decision of the JCC (from a thousand and more).

The Bulletin shall be issued once every two month.

The Bulletin shall be issued in the Russian language and sent to the secretariats of the units of the JCC and the Mission of the OSCE in Georgia for translation in the English language, and, if needed, in the Georgian and Ossetian languages. An interpreter-translator shall certify correspondence of the translation with the authentic text in the Russian language. The issue of the Bulletin shall be distributed in the government organs of the parties, among the society, diplomatic missions, as well as among international and regional organizations and their representatives (according to the list of persons and organizations approved by the JCC).

Co-chairmen of the JCC shall determine the place of printing the Bulletin of the JCC.

5. Content of Materials of Bulletin and Headings

- Official materials (speeches of cochairmen, information on sessions of the JCC, its workgroups, excerpts from decisions of the JCC; information on visits of foreign guests in the zone of conflict; meetings where issues on the Georgian-Ossetian conflict has been raised and discussed; excerpts from resolutions of UN, the OSCE);

- Assessments, evaluations, problems, judgments (opinions of representatives of different organizations, business circles, local and foreign specialists and experts in the area of conflictology);

- Foreign aid (economic and humanitarian assistance from foreign states and international organizations to the population in the zone of conflict; goals, objectives, directions, numbers);

- People, events, facts (reporting on interesting people, facts, events in various areas; fiction, culture, sports, arts, etc);

- Opinions of readers (heading shall be formed on the basis of articles and letters of readers);

- Other materials supporting resolution of the conflict.

Publication of statements of one of the parties to the process of negotiations incorporating accusations towards another party shall be prohibited in the Bulletin.

6. Conclusive Provisions

This provision shall be approved by the JCC.

(Archive of the Staff of the State Minister of Georgia for Conflict Resolution Issues/in Russian)