TSKHINVALI. Nov 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Eduard Kokoity, president of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia, said he is ready for a peaceful dialogue with Tbilisi.
"The Ossetian party is committed to an exclusively peaceful solution to the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. We are ready for a dialogue, and what counts most to us is to avoid any resumption of hostilities," Kokoity told a meeting with the republic's deputies and ministers following his recent meeting with senior Georgian officials in Sochi.
The situation in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone remains complex, he said.
The South Ossetian information committee quoted the republic's Emergency Situations and Defense Ministries as saying that a grenade attack was launched on the South Ossetian village of Kvernet and the northern outskirts of Tskhinvali from the Georgian village of Tamarasheni last night.
The Shida Kartli regional police department reported earlier that Georgian villages near the Bolshaya Liakhva river had been attacked by South Ossetian units last night. Several houses in Tamarasheni were damaged by the shelling.
"Another camp to retrain Georgian Defense Ministry reservists was opened" in the village of Dzevera in the conflict zone on Tuesday, says a report posted on the South Ossetian government's website.