| Security Council Secretary Gela BEZHUASHVILI commented on the situation for Vremya Novostei correspondent in Georgia Mikhail VIGNANSKY.
-- Tbilisi claims that the latest weapons are coming to Tskhinvali, but South Ossetia says that all its equipment is trophies from the Georgian-Ossetian conflict of 1989-1992.
- Only part of the equipment accumulated there was brought out for the military parade on September 20 in Tskhinvali (the 15th anniversary of independence was celebrated. - Ed. ). There is deliberate militarization going on there. The weapons come from Russia. Officially, unofficially - not so important. It is a fact that the territory of the Tskhinvali region is crammed with weapons.
-- The area of responsibility of the peacekeeping forces, which Tbilisi accuses of ineffectiveness, does not extend to the entire territory of South Ossetia. For example, in the Java region, where Tskhinvali is conducting exercises.
— For the second year now, we have been raising the issue of the need to monitor the entire territory of the conflict zone. It is necessary to demilitarize the entire zone, not only Tskhinvali and what is nearby. It is dangerous to have such black holes there. Interviewed by Mikhail VIGNANSKY
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