12:35 10/02/2009

TBILISI, February 10 (RIA Novosti) - The South Ossetian Interior Ministry dismissed on Tuesday Georgian accusations that two OSCE monitors were abducted on Tuesday in the breakaway republic.

The Georgian Interior Ministry said earlier in the day that two officials from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) had been abducted in South Ossetia.

The South Ossetian ministry said the monitors were detained for a document check and subsequently released.

"Two OSCE representatives crossed the border between Georgia and South Ossetia at 10:20 a.m. [Moscow time, 07:20 GMT] Tuesday and were stopped by police at the border line," the source said, adding that the monitors were released almost immediately.

The OSCE mission was not immediately available for the comment.

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