TBILISI. Nov 15 (Interfax-AVN) -- The authorities of breakaway South Ossetia have accused the Georgian side of failing to comply with the Sochi agreements on demilitarization of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.
"Compliance with the Sochi demilitarization accords and the unblocking of roads should be carried out on a bilateral basis, but Tbilisi apparently doesn't share this view," the South Ossetian minister without portfolio and co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission for the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, Boris Chochiyev, told Interfax on Monday.
He said Tbilisi has done nothing to pull out illegal paramilitary units out of the conflict zone.
"According to our estimates, over 800 peacekeepers instead of the 500 fixed by the quota are stationed in Georgian villages located in the conflict zone, and all of them claim to be peacekeepers," Chochiyev said.
He said an agreement had been reached about removing block-posts from the Georgian villages of Kehvi and Tamarasheni and deploying trilateral peacekeeping units there, but "that has not been done".
"We asked the Georgian side to solve a number of humanitarian questions, for one, pertaining to the sowing campaign in the Leninogorsk district, but no farming machinery has been allowed in," the minister said.
Asked about Ossetia's compliance with the Sochi accords, he said "South Ossetian Defense Ministry units deployed near Georgian villages are being pulled out and peacekeepers will be brought in."
"We expect the Georgian side to follow suit," Chochiyev said.