Red Cross says staff heading to S. Ossetia capital

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Source: Interantional herald Tribune

GENEVA: The Red Cross says that it is sending workers to the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali for the first time since the brief Russian-Georgian war broke out in the breakaway province earlier this month.

The move follows talks between the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Tskhinvali was the site of some of the fiercest fighting between the Georgian army and South Ossetian rebels backed by Russian troops. The city is currently under Russian control.

ICRC president Jakob Kellenberger told journalists in Geneva on Wednesday that his staff would also open an office in the Georgian city of Gori.


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