South Ossetian chief negotiator and Special Affairs Minister of the unrecognized republic Boris Chochiev said that Tbilisi’s Action Plan over settlement of the conflict is not realistic, which “contains nothing new for the South Ossetian side.” The Russian side has also described this action plan as unrealistic.

The so called Action Plan, which was presented by Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli at the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on October 27 describes the objectives and steps the Georgian authorities intend to undertake in the coming months and in 2006 in order to achieve a final solution to the conflict.

“This plan can be approved and hailed only by those persons, who have very superficial and weak imagination about the situation in the conflict zone, or by those who are obliged to do it by virtue of political circumstances,” Boris Chochiev says in a statement issued by the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee on November 3.