According to him, one checkpoint will be deployed by the entrance to Tamarasheni. A mixed contingent comprising Georgian and South Ossetian policemen and peacekeepers will be on permanent alert at this checkpoint, he added.
Mr. Khaindrava assured that the Georgian police checkpoint in Tamarasheni would be dismantled in the next two days.
The situation around Tamarasheni aggravated on July 30. Then Tskhinvali (capital of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia) claimed that the city was fired at from the Georgian township. Tbilisi said, on its part, that Tamarasheni was attacked by South Ossetian units.
According to the Georgian state minister, both sides have proposals on easing tensions in the conflict area.
"I believe we should begin with hotspots, where firings occur and where there are damaged buildings and wounded people," Georgy Khaindrava noted.
In his words, it is necessary to consider steps on the normalization of the negotiations and relations.
The mixed monitoring commission has 'emergency' functions so far, he added.
Above all, we should prevent incidents similar to that of July 30 and our compromises, the minister stressed.
Cochairmen Boris Chochieyv (South Ossetia) and Taimuraz Kusov (North Ossetia), deputy cochairman Vasily Korchmar (Russia), peacekeepers commander General Svyatoslav Nabzdorov and OSCE representatives also took part in the session of the mixed monitoring commission for the Georgian-South Ossetian settlement.
