TSKHINVALI. Oct 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia have detected unsanctioned posts maintained by the Georgian and South Ossetian police, Major General Svyatoslav Nabzdorov, commander of the Mixed Peacekeeping Force, said on Wednesday.
"The command of the Mixed Peacekeeping Force will present results of the monitoring related to the placement of unsanctioned posts by the Georgian and South Ossetian police at the meeting of co-chairmen of the Mixed Control Commission on settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in early November," Nabzdorov told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"The monitoring started on September 25, and we have already exposed a considerable number of violations committed by both parties," he said.
The commander stressed that posts cannot be placed without clearance with the Mixed Control Commission and the Mixed Peacekeeping Force command.
"Mobile military observer teams involving Russians, Georgians and Ossetians have been registering the locations of the posts since September 25," he said.
According to Nabzdorov, "unsanctioned posts are often placed on the Trans-Caucasus highway to extort money."
"It is expedient to render all control over the highway to the peacekeeping force in order to avoid any violations, and an announcement to this effect will be made at the meeting of co- chairmen that will take place in Tbilisi or Vladikavkaz," he said.
The Mixed Peacekeeping Force was deployed in the conflict zone in 1992. It maintains a total of 12 pickets in the area. Six of them are manned by the Ossetian battalion, three by the Russian battalion, and three more by the Georgian battalion.