Archive - 13/12/2013

December 12-13 in Vladikavkaz is under way the International Conference "Features and prospects of international processes in North and South Ossetia," organized by the Vladikavkaz Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Government of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the North Ossetian Institute of Humanities and Social Studies.
The participants of the conference are discussing the prospects of political, legal, historical, cultural and socio-economic integration of North and South Ossetia. Among the participants of the conference are: Doctor of History, Professor Dzidzoev, Candidate of History, Professor Gagloev, Candidate of Philosophy Dzugayev, Candidate of History Chibirov, Associate Professor Sanakoev, Doctor of History Dzattiaty and other outstanding scientists.
Within the framework of the International Conference will take place a presentation of the book by Boris Chochiev "Georgian chroniclers and historians about South Ossetia and Georgia." The book contains fragments of works of Georgian historians and scientific works of famous Georgian historians about early stages of the history of Ossetians and Georgians, confirming the Ossetian ethnos to be indigenous in South Ossetia and shedding light on the question of the original motherland of Georgian people.
Boris Chochiev is a Head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Republic of South Ossetia. In different years, he served as a Chairman of the State Committee for Nationalities and Migration, Minister for Special Assignments of the RSO, Minister for Special Affairs of South Ossetia, First Deputy Prime Minister of South Ossetia. From 1993 to 2008 - co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission for the Georgian- Ossetian conflict from the South Ossetian side.

Participants of the 26 round of international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia, scheduled for December 18 in Geneva, will discuss the situation on the state border of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with Georgia, as well as socio-economic development of the region.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the main theme of the security group is traditionally to develop reliable guarantees of non-use of force by Georgia against neighboring states;
it will continue the consideration of draft documents in this sphere, including the Russian initiative on adopting a joint declaration of all participants of the Geneva discussions on the non-use of force. Furthermore, at the Geneva meeting will be reviewed the activities of the Mechanisms for preventing and responding to incidents at the South Ossetian- Georgian and Georgian - Abkhazian border.
The humanitarian group will continue discussions on the issues of interest to the participants, including the exchange of detained persons in the border areas and the search for the missing persons.
The Geneva discussions are held since October 2008 after the armed aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia. They involve representatives of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia, the Russian Federation, Georgia, United States of America, as well as the UN, OSCE and EU.
South Ossetian delegation is led by Presidential Envoy of the RSO for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

The first priority for the government of South Ossetia today is the restoration of housing and socio-economic infrastructure damaged during the Georgian aggression in August 2008, said today Deputy Prime Domenti Kulumbegov at a press conference in Tskhinval.
According to him, this work includes not only the implementation of the Investment Program to promote socio-economic development of South Ossetia; steps are being taken to ensure the construction of unfinished projects to be completed in the coming year.
"This is in the forefront of the Investment program to promote socio-economic development of South Ossetia in 2014, so that in future we`ll be able to go over to the development of economy of the Republic," - said Deputy Prime Minister.
He has stressed that along with the social facilities, construction and restoration of which is included in the Investment program in 2014, will continue housing development, as well as the development of the border areas of the Republic.
"As part of these activities first of all in the current year will be restored water supply to the villages in Leningor district where this problem has been pressing for a long time," - said Deputy Prime Minister .
The development of other areas is included in the investment programme for the next years.
"The leadership of the Republic will support agricultural projects, tourism and other areas. We have just put them for a year, as we need to complete the facilities of protracted construction."
Kulumbegov also told about the activities of the working group that interacts with the Assistant to the President of Russia for Cooperation with the CIS countries, South Ossetia and Abkhazia Vladislav Surkov. According to him, this work is not limited by investment issues, are also resolved other vital issues, arising in the course of collaboration and the main result of the work of this working group is the increase of financial aid to South Ossetia in 2014, which will amount to 1 billion - 2.8 billion rubles.
"With the appointment of Surkov the methods to solving the problems of South Ossetia have become more balanced and clear, appropriate to the situation in the restoration process," - said Kulumbegov, noting that previously there was no clear and systematic work that caused the ineffective execution of plans for the restoration of the Republic.