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Toivo Klaar, the European Union Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia (EUSR) visited Tbilisi, Tskhinvali, and Sokhumi on June 6-10, where he met Georgian officials and the Kremlin-backed authorities of occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions, CIVIL.GE reported.

During June 6 meeting with Georgian Security Service Chief Grigol Liluashvili, the parties discussed the humanitarian and security situation in Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and S. Ossetia, particularly underscoring the urgency of unconditionally releasing the arbitrarily detained Georgian citizens Zaza Gakheladze, Lasha Khetereli, Genadi Bestaev, and Irakli Bebua from custody.

According to the State Security Service, the parties also touched upon the situation along the occupation line, discussing the instruments for more efficiently using the active negotiation platforms of Geneva International Discussions (GID) and Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM).

In Tskhinvali, EU Special Representative Klaar met with Russia-backed S. Ossetian interlocutors led by Murat Jioev. According to Jioev, at the June 9 meeting, the S. Ossetian side expressed its discontent about the Geneva rounds “yielding practically no results,” while suggesting the EU Representative steps to increase effectivity of the negotiations.