TBILISI. Nov 30 (Interfax-AVN) - The co-chairmen of the Joint Control Commission on Georgian-Ossetian conflict settlement are going to meet in December to discuss results of demilitarization in the conflict zone, Giorgi Khaindrava, Georgian state minister for separatist conflicts and commission co-chairman, told Interfax-Military News Agency Tuesday.
"We agreed to meet in Tbilisi in December, and are negotiating the exact date now," he said.
He recalled that the conflict was burning hard in summer, when excessive forces of both conflicting parties were deployed in South Ossetia, and fortifications were constructed.
"The demilitarization of the region started right after the meeting of Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Tskhinvali region head Eduard Kokoity in Sochi on November 5," he stressed.
He noted that the demilitarization is active now, with both sides involved. "The parties are digging up trenches and foxholes, made during the summer crisis," he said.
Ibragim Gassiyev, deputy defense minister of the breakaway republic of South Ossetia, told Interfax-AVN that the Ossetian side abides by its commitments under the demilitarization agreement in full.
"We hope that Georgia will also fulfil its obligations in full, for instance, will take away its illegal checkpoints in vicinity of Tamarasheni and Kekhvi," he said.