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Georgia to meet South Ossetia rebels for landmark talks: official
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TBILISI (AFP) - Georgian and South Ossetian officials have agreed to hold direct talks for the first time in university of south carolina nude coeds a decade this week amid mounting tensions in the rebel region, a Georgian official said Tuesday.
South Ossetia's rebel government denied agreeing to the talks in a statement on its website, but a senior Russian official confirmed the discussions were to south texas blood and tissue center take place on Thursday.
Georgian Reintegration Minister Temur Yakobashvili told AFP he would meet on August 7 with senior South Ossetian officials in the rebel capital Tskhinvali.
He said the landmark talks, albury new south wales australia the first direct bilateral contact between the two sides for at least a decade, "could mark a breakthrough in resolving the conflict."
Russia's negotiator on South Ossetia, ambassador-at-large Yury Popov, also told the ITAR-TASS news kosovo south africa independnace agency that the talks would take place, adding that Russia would take part.
"We hope the sides will manage to find compromise decisions that will promote the removal of tensions in the region," he was quoted bell south white pages as saying.
Georgia's foreign ministry also said super highway from south to north Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze would meet Russian counterpart Grigory Karasin in Moscow later this week to discuss the situation in South Ossetia.
The reports came after Moscow warned it would defend Russian citizens living in South Ossetia, Russian media said.
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South Ossetia has evacuated hundreds of women and children to Russia over the past few days after six people were killed on Friday by sniper and mortar fire from Georgian positions, the rebel province's government said.
Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Eka Zguladze on Tuesday denied rebel claims south dakota department of labor of a Georgian military build-up near South Ossetia and that Georgian forces had been the first to fire on rebel south hills village positions.
"If we use force, it is only in cases where it is absolutely necessary to defend the lives of law-enforcement officers," she told journalists during a visit with European diplomats kiawah island south carolina to Georgian-controlled areas of South Ossetia.
"We are not preparing for war," she said. "There is no significant build-up."
The diplomats were shown a series of homes and police checkpoints that Georgia alleges came under grenade and mortar fire from South Ossetia over the weekend. Zguladze said six civilians and nine police were injured in the attacks.
Local residents said the fighting had been the worst for years.
"Intense shooting continued for hours," said Omar Champuridze, 64, who received minor injuries when south carolina polls his home in the village of Zemo Nikozi was struck by a shell.
He accused Russia of fanning tensions in the region, saying "neither the Ossetian nor the Georgian people want war, but someone is trying to provoke a conflict."
The United States urged Moscow to avoid provocation in the region.
"We don't believe that now is the time for any parties to be acting in a provocative way," said State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos.
"We believe that the violence should stop and all parties should begin a discussion so that they can move forward towards settling the situation."
South Ossetia broke away from the rest of Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 in facts about south korea a conflict that killed thousands of people.
Russia has given the separatist province diplomatic and economic support, including granting citizenship to most of south african army surplus stores its residents.
Tensions between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian region, Abkhazia, have soared in recent months since Moscow announced it was boosting ties with the separatists.
Georgia accuses Moscow of seeking to annex the two regions and derail its efforts to join the NATO military alliance, which Russia vehemently opposes.
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