South Ossetia delegation left the conference on security in the Transcaucasus.

   South Ossetia after the Abkhaz delegation left the meeting held in Geneva on security in the Caucasus. This May 18, RIA Novosti reported.
Authorized representative of President of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement, Boris Chochiev said that his delegation left the meeting because "it makes no sense to discuss security issues of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the absence of the Abkhaz delegation." Chochiev added that in the event of a return to the discussion of Abkhazia, South Ossetia will follow suit.
The Delegation of Abkhazia said the refusal to participate in the Geneva meeting on 16 May. The Abkhaz side refused to debate because it did not provide the text of the report of the UN secretary general, announced at the UN General Assembly on 15 May. As the Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Sergei Shamba, the authorities need to check, did not say whether the report of the UN secretary general of Abkhazia as part of Georgia.
On 18 May in Geneva, started the fifth round of debate on account of security in the Transcaucasus. Publication of "Caucasian knot" recalls that the first round of the debate was launched on 15 October 2008. This dialog provides the scheme solution of the conflict between Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia in August, produced in collaboration with the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. In discussions involving the Russian Federation, the United States, Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
According to RIA Novosti, in the fifth round of discussions was going to offer South Ossetia party interlocutors develop a memorandum on the non-Georgian forces.