Tskhinvali closes so-called border with the rest of Georgia for New Year
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Relatives living on opposite sides of the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) between Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) and the rest of Georgia will have no chance of celebrating the upcoming New Year together.
De facto authorities of Tskhinvali region decided to close the so-called border on the holidays and not to allow Georgian and Ossetian citizens to visit each other.
All the checkpoints at the ABL will remain closed from 9am on December 31 to 9pm on January 1.
This information was released by local news agency Sputnik Ossetia. The media outlet wrote so-called head of the "state security committee” Eduard Jabiev announced the "border” closing while holding a discussing with so-called president Leonid Tibilov.
Tibilov said these "security measures” were needed on the holidays "in relation to the information that some ISIS fighters are in Georgia”.
Earlier the de facto regime said some ISIS members were planning to arrange "provocations” on the so-called border.
De facto Tskinvali closes the ABL and does not allow Georgian citizens to cross it almost every time a major celebration takes place either in Georgia or the breakaway region.
Citizens of Georgia living near the occupation line with Tskinvali (South Ossetia) region will have no chance of celebrating the upcoming Easter on April 12 as tradition calls to honour their loved ones.
Negotiations on possible arrangements to facilitate visits to cemeteries and religious sites over the upcoming Easter period were unsuccessful. The 53rd meeting of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) was held in Ergneti yesterday.
The installation of barbed wire fences by Russian and Ossetian border guards has left a historical Georgian church isolated behind the fences, which mark the so-called boundary between Georgian and Ossetian territory.
The Georgian Patriarchate has serious concerns about the barbed wire fences erected to mark the so-called boundary between Georgian and South Ossetian territory.
Tskhinvali closes so-called border
Georgian and Ossetian relatives residing near the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) separating Georgia from its breakaway region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) will meet the New Year isolated from one another by barbed wire fences.
Relatives living on opposite sides of the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) between Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) and the rest of Georgia will have no chance of visiting each other for the next two days.
Relatives living on opposite sides of the Administrative Boundary Line (ABL) between Georgia’s breakaway Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia) and the rest of Georgia will have no chance of visiting each other for the next three days.