Tshinval/Agency Caucasus – The government of Georgia cut off the supply of water to Tshinval, capital of South Ossetia, just as it did this before in last summer.
Although the channel of water that runs to Tshinval from Edis was experiencing a problem in its part in the Georgian village of Kehvi-Tamarasheni, the Georgian administration was not doing anything to help solve the problem, or it seemed to be simply indifferent to the problem, said Boris Chochiyev, the Ossetian Co-President of Joint Control Commission, or JCC, which was set up to resolve the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia. "The supply of water to Tshinval is cut off. We applied to Dmitri Mandcavidze, the Georgian Co-President of JRR to make a statement about the cause of cut-off in water supply. He said that the ‘provisional administration’ would solve all problems pertaining to the cause of cut-off as of the New Year."
Chochiyev said that Mandcavidze was being kept entirely remote from talks, because Dmitri Sanokoyev, head of an administration that had been set up in alternative to the government of South Ossetia and that won official recognition only from Georgia, wanted to assume Mandcavidze’s powers. Chochiyev also said that he had applied to Marat Kulahmetov, Commander of the Peace Force of Commonwealth of Independent States, to conduct an investigation into the problem. RE/ÖZ/FT
