Tbilisi, Tskhinvali will form Red Cross-led mechanism to search for missing people

Interfax
February 24, 2010

TSKHINVALI - The participants in the Geneva-based consultations on security and stability in the Caucasus plan to set up a mechanism under the aegis of the International Committee of the Red Cross that will help search for people who went missing during the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia in August 2008 and immediately after it.

The participants in the consultations "have exchanged lists with the names of missing people, and South Ossetia has raised a number of issues that will be discussed," David Sanakoyev, the South Ossetian president's human rights envoy, told Interfax over the phone from Geneva.

Agreements achieved as part of the Geneva mechanisms are confidential, Sanakoyev said.

Merab Chigoyev, the South Ossetian president's deputy envoy for the post-conflict process, representatives of Russia's Defense Ministry and Russian prosecutors' Investigative Committee, as well as Georgian Interior Ministry officials attended the Geneva-based consultations as well.