Archive - 6/2011

The KGB frontier service of South Ossetia has transferred to representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia nine horses belonging to citizens of Georgia, violating the border around the settlement Koz (Dzausky region RSO) on June, 18 and 19, 2011. It has been reported the news agency "Res" by the press-service of the RSO.KGB. «On June, 28 the animals have been transferred through the personnel of the official representative of the KGB Frontier Service of South Ossetia to the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia in the presence of the international European Union observers in Georgia», - the KGB press-service has informed .

Concerning the submitted by Georgia draught resolution of the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on refugees and internally displaced persons from Abkhazia and South Ossetia

The delegation of Georgia has prepared and has officially submitted to the secretariat the draught resolution of the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly- « Position of internally displaced persons from Abkhazia, Georgia and from Tshkinvalskiy region /South Ossetia/Georgia. The draught resolution text is similar to the previous year document. The matter is about refugees - the ethnic Georgians, who have found themselves dislocated in the result of the Georgian army attack upon South Ossetia in August, 2008. Unfortunately, in this draft resolution only the unilateral approach is represented having nothing in common with an actual state of affairs and with concern about the fate of the refugees. Against the background of the Georgian draught resolution about the position of refugees and internally displaced persons one could see only aspiration of Georgia to support its claim on the sovereignty over the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has underlined a special role of the Russian frontier guards in stabilizing the situation around the Republic. «I am glad to note that the Russian frontier guards, considering the national mentality, cooperate with the local population closely irrespective of national identity», - Eduard Kokoity has informed the journalists.

Construction of the Russian Embassy premises in South Ossetia will come to the end by the beginning of the next year. It has been informed by the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the RSO Elbrus Kargiev at the briefing in South Ossetia.

The South Ossetian frontier guards are supposed to take part in special boundary operations on the CIS territory. It has been reported today by the Deputy Head of the Frontier service of FSB in Russia, Colonel General Nikolay Kozik at the briefing in South Ossetia. As he has said, in 2011 it is planned carrying out two special boundary operations on the territory of the CIS. «First of all, it is a struggle against illegal migration on the borders of the Russian Federation, - Kozik has said. - With the concurrence of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia - Eduard Kokoity we are also planning to involve the South Ossetian frontier guards in implementing this operation».

The Second conference of the Caucasus Scientific Society «The Problems in the Caucasus and the modern Caucasus exploration., a role of external and internal factors in the region development» will take place from June, 29 to July, 1, 2011 (Vladikavkaz - Tskhinval, June, 29 - July, 1, 2011) The partners of the Caucasus Scientific Society are the North Ossetian humanitarian and social researches institute named after V.I.Abaev and the South-Ossetian scientific research institute named after Z.N.Vaneev. The first Session – a Role of external and internal factors in the region development will take part in Vladikavkaz, and the second - Conflicts, demography and a role of mass-media - will continue the work in Tskhinval.

Today a briefing on the occasion of commissioning a new military camp of the FSB of Russia Frontier Management in the RSO has taken place in the settlement Grom in Tshkinvalskiy region of the RSO. The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity, the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the RSO Elbrus Kargiev, the chief of the FSB of Russia Frontier Management in the RSO Alexander Murzin, the head of the Department of Boundary Protection of the FSB Frontier service in Russia Nicolay Kozik, the Deputy Minister for regional development of Russia Sergey Vereshchagin have had a speech at the briefing.

The processes related to reconstruction works in South Ossetia, are absolutely opened and transparent. It has been declared today by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity at the briefing in South Ossetia. «The Russian structures can completely supervise allocation of funds and their target use on the territory of South Ossetia, - has declared Kokoity. - We, for our part, are absolutely opened in this respect and ready for further cooperation». According to Kokoity, the leadership of South Ossetia has been doing everything for its inhabitants to live in normal, good conditions.

This year the II International Youth Forum will take place In South Ossetia. It has been reported by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity at the meeting with the Republican youth. According to Kokoity, in South Ossetia about hundred visitors, including the representatives of different political parties and movements of the Russian Federation will take part in the forum. As the head of the state has noted, a forum for youth – is not simply a tribune, but a medium of experience exchange, establishing the necessary contacts. «You are perfectly aware of our state strategy, the strategic line of our state development. We are focused on establishing strong, allied, good-neighbourly interstate relations with Russia», - the President has said. He has underlined that if the youth is more advanced in this cause, if it expands contacts with their Russian contemporaries, thereby the interstate relations between two countries will become stronger.

The declaration of independence of the Republic of South Ossetia, all struggle of the Ossetian people for the state independence is based on strict observance of the international law standards. It has been declared by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSO Murat Dzhioev in his interview to the news agency "Res" «We did not make any decision which would contradict the applicable international legislation. Moreover, considering that till the end of 1991 the situation developed within the frames of the USSR, I have to remind that our actions completely coincided with the effective legislation of the USSR», - the minister has noted. «I’d like to underline not only the legal aspects of things.