Non-aggression guarantees between Georgia and its former republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will be discussed on Tuesday during the regular round of Geneva consultations on South Caucasus.
The format of the discussions on security and stability in the South Caucasus was established after the five-day war between Georgia and Russia in August 2008.
Delegations from Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, the United States and South Ossetia participate in the Geneva meetings on an equal footing. Representatives of the European Union, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe also attend.
Boris Chochiyev, who represents South Ossetia at the talks, said his country would "put forward other proposals" if Georgia again refuses to provide detailed answers on the terms and date of a legally binding non-aggression treaty.
He gave no details on what "proposals" his country had prepared.
Chochiyev said that South Ossetia would also raise the issue of a recent bogus TV news report of Russian invasion into Georgia, which "paid damage to security in Transcaucasia... and dealt a serious blow to the Geneva discussions."
The Imedi TV channel sparked panic in Georgia with a broadcast that said Russian tanks had invaded the capital and the country's president was dead. The report used footage from the August 2008 conflict with Russia.
Russian deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin, who heads the Russian delegation at the talks, said the issue of the fake news report will "naturally be raised."
"We cannot just ignore this provocative move by the Imedi TV channel, because clearly it is an ill-considered provocation, aimed mainly at the domestic population, which is being artificially held in the state of emotional stress," he said.
MOSCOW, March 30 (RIA Novosti)
