Joint Control Commission for Georgian–Ossetian Conflict Resolution

[2] The commission was created by an agreement signed by the Head of Parliament of Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, and the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin.

The Joined Peacekeeping Force (JPKF) created by the agreement consisted of three members with equal representation: Georgian, Russian and South Ossetian contingents.

[citation needed] According to majority of reports, the South Ossetians were responsible for instigating the bomb explosion which marked the opening of hostilities.

[5] The Russian deputy defence minister, Nikolay Pankov, had a secret meeting with the separatist authorities in Tskhinvali on 3 August.

[9] During the afternoon, OSCE monitors recorded Georgian military traffic, including artillery, on roads near Gori.

Karkarashvili claimed Georgian JPKF servicemen did not take part in the attack on the city they vowed to protect.

[17][18] On page 372 of volume III of the IIFFMCG report, the JPKF was disbanded as hostilities had ceased on the 10th of October, 2008 as the European Monitoring Commission had been deployed to the region.