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In the wake of Monday\'s incident in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, when three Georgian policemen suffered after their vehicle came under fire, Georgia\'s Foreign Ministry blamed Russian peacekeepers for inactivity and reluctance to facilitate a peaceful settlement of the conflict \"The incident points yet again to a recent series of open provocations in the Tskhinvali district, staged in an apparent attempt to provoke a response from the Georgian side,\" the Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, circulated late on Monday. \"All this has been unfolding against a backdrop of absolute inactivity on the part of the peacekeeping force and its command, although the fight against this kind of crimes in the conflict zone is documented in the December 6 1994 resolution of the Mixed Control Commission as the peacekeepers\' direct responsibility,\" the statement reads. The Georgian Foreign Ministry also said that the recent incident in the conflict zone, when a group of South Ossetian \"militiamen\" attempted to disrupt the work of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe observers, should be seen in the same context.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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