South Ossetian intelligence has proof that a military plane, which allegedly violated its airspace on Tuesday, is in service with the Georgian Air Force, the self-declared republic's envoy to Russia said Wednesday.

Georgia has claimed that jets flown from Russia have fired a missile on its territory. According to Georgia, the missile did not explode and landed in a cornfield close to the village of Tsitelubani, about 65 kilometers west of Tbilisi, and a few kilometers south of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region.

South Ossetia's delegation will not participate in an August 9-10 session of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) on the settlement of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, the unrecognized republic's president said Friday.

Russia has no right to use Abkhazia's territory for the Winter Olympics in 2014 without official approval from Tbilisi, Georgia's parliamentary speaker said commenting on an article published in the Russian press Thursday.

Georgia has accused Russia of withholding key information from a UN investigation into an attack on Kodori Gorge in March and is calling for the probe to be reopened, RFE/RL's Georgian Service reported.

Hopes for the speedy resumption of a dialogue between Georgia and its breakaway republic of Abkhazia have once again been frustrated, the UN Secretary General has said in a report.

Georgia has sent the first of an extra 1,300 troops to Iraq. The soldiers left for Kuwait today, where they will undergo a three-week training course for a peacekeeping mission in Iraq.

The Rossiya TV channel confirmed reports Thursday that two of its correspondents had been detained in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict area. Journalist Andrei Chistyakov and cameraman Igor Stiruit from the Vesti bureau in Pyatigorsk arrived Thursday in the Georgian village of Kurt, in the conflict area, to make a report about local peacekeeping efforts.

Georgia hopes that hosting the maneuvers for NATO will improve its chances of joining the Western military alliance. So the air forces of 12 nations kicked off Wednesday in Georgia.

The Russian and Georgian presidents, who talked by phone Friday, said the 2014 Winter Olympics at a Russian seaside resort would help bring peace to the Caucasus, the Kremlin said.

Georgia has paid off a portion of its United Nations dues, allowing it to be removed from a "blacklist" of nations in arrears of their financial obligations to the organization, the UN press service said.

Russia is not planning to reinforce its peacekeepers in Georgia's self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia following recent tensions in the region, the first deputy commander of the ground forces said Tuesday.