It is necessary to sign a non-aggression memorandum between Georgia and South Ossetia, said Eduard Kokoity, president of the unrecognised republic of South Ossetia, at his meeting on Tuesday with a group of ambassador-leaders of delegations of countries to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. “The achievement of these goals can bring the process of settlement of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict to a new qualitative level,” Kokoity said. “There are two moments, the fulfilment of which can be assessed as a proof of peaceful intentions of Georgian authorities: the first is the fulfilment of the proposal of the OSCE and the signing of a memorandum on non-aggression and non-use of force between Georgia and South Ossetia, the second is preparation and conduction of a four-party meeting of top political leaders of Russia, Georgia, North and South Ossetia,” he said. He stressed that the actions of official Tbilsi like the “regular rotation to the peacekeeping battalion, massive violations of South Ossetia’s air space by planes of the Georgian air force, the construction of barracks and hospitals, the blocking of remote South Ossetian villages, the rocking of the very format of the peacekeeping operation facilitate only a further escalation of the conflict”. Ambassadors of Belgium, Britain, Switzerland, Canada, Slovenia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, Georgia, Turkey, as well as representatives of Norway, Russia and the US attended the meeting. Belgian Ambassador Bertrand de Crombrugghe, who leads the country’s delegation to the OSCE, expressed the hope that a donor conference that was held in Brussels would prove an important stage in conflict settlement and establishment of trust between the sides. (Itar-Tass)