TSKHINVAL. Sept 20 (Interfax) - A special State Duma commission on the genocide of the Ossetian people led by Viktor Vodolatsky is planning to visit Tskhinval at the beginning of November, member of the Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration, and Compatriots Kazbek Taisayev said at a meeting with speaker of the South Ossetian parliament Alan Tadtayev in Tskhinval.
Taisayev said that a meeting on the possibility of the recognition of the genocide of the Ossetian people is to be held at the South Ossetian parliament.
During the talks, Taisayev passed on to South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov a Duma resolution that set up a special commission on the genocide of the Ossetian people by Georgia in 1920. The commission was established following a request from the South Ossetian parliament to the Russian Duma.
"Viktor Vodolatsky became commission head. Sufficient work has been done and the necessary queries have been sent. An expert council of leading Russians specialists was formed. These people represent the Academy of Sciences. Many people were invited. It would be good if the South Ossetian parliament also set up a commission involving specialists and experts to jointly work on the matter. I know that you have all the necessary documents concerning the genocide," Taisayev said.
Tadtayev, in turn, thanked the State Duma for the response to the issue of genocide, saying that this is very important for South Ossetia.
"It is very important for us. Each family remembers the genocide. We have all the materials, including publications by our and Russian experts. We are ready to cooperate," Tadtayev said.
The Russian delegation is in Tskhinval at the invitation of the South Ossetian leadership on the occasion of the 29th anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of South Ossetia.
It was reported on September 9 that the State Duma set up a working group led by Vodolatsky to study the request of the South Ossetian parliament to recognize the genocide of Ossetians by Georgia.
Reports at the end of July said that the South Ossetian parliament sent a request to the Russian parliament on the recognition of the genocide of South Ossetians by Georgian nationalists in 1920.