South Ossetia closes so-called border during presidential elections in Georgia
Russian-occupied Tskhinvali calls the occupation line between Tskhinvali region and the rest of Georgia "the state border". Photo: Reuters.com
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The de facto Security Committee of the occupied region of South Ossetia is going to close the so-called border during the second round of Georgia's presidential elections.
"South Ossetia's State Security Committee reports that during the second round of Georgian presidential elections, the functioning of border checkpoints will be suspended from 20:00 on November 27 until 6:00 am on November 29. The closure is being treated as a security measure.", the de-facto State Security Committee stated.
The second round of Georgia’s presidential elections will be held on November 28, according to the decision of the Central Election Commission.
Wednesday, November 28 has been declared a public holiday in Georgia.
The second round of Georgia’s presidential elections will be held on November 28, according to the decision of the Central Election Commission which was announced today.
The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has ended the counting process of votes for the 28 October presidential elections.The votes of all 3,705 polling stations have been counted and the results mean that a runoff will be held no later than 2 October between the top two candidates-Zurabishvili and Vashadze.
Representatives of de-facto South Ossetia abruptly ended today’s Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) meeting in Ergneti village, near the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
So-called border guards of Russian-occupied South Ossetia have detained three citizens of Georgia for ‘illegal border crossing’.
The de facto leadership of the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region of Georgia is restricting the procedure of so called border crossing with the rest of Georgia.