S. Ossetia asks Red Cross to check reports about kidnapped Ossetians

Interfax
November 17, 2009

TSKHINVALI - South Ossetian presidential envoy for post-conflict settlement Boris Chochiyev met with the Head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mission in South Ossetia in Tskhinvali.

At the meeting the parties discussed the abduction by Georgians of three South Ossetians, Loliyev, Kaziyev and Yeloyev, who, according to some reports, were released by Georgian law enforcement authorities and are now staying at an apartment in the town of Gori, Georgia, a source told Interfax. Chochiyev asked the ICRC official to check these reports and visit them if possible, the source said.

The ICRC Mission head promised to do everything in his power to fulfill this request.

At the meeting the parties also discussed the missing Ossetians.

According to South Ossetia, Georgian secret services abducted Yevloyev near the village of Orchozan in South Ossetia's Leninogorsk district, and Loliyev and Kaziyev were kidnapped on October 8, 2008.