Archive - 7/2011

The World Art Committee and the World Assembly of Social Recognition have decorated the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity with the gold order and have awarded him honorary title of «the Holder of the international order «Knight of honour." The rewarding ceremony has taken place in the assembly hall of the Government House in Tskhinval. The award to the head of the state has been presented by the President of the North-Caucasian Academy of Creative Work, the Honored Art Worker of Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Abkhazia, Ingushetia, and Dagestan Aues Bejtuganov.

On June, 29, 2011 the resolution on refugees and internally displaced persons from Abkhazia and South Ossetia which project was prepared by Georgia has been adopted at the 65 session of the United Nations General Assembly. The problem discussion passed without participation of the interested sides of the Republic of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and this circumstance testifies that this document, as well as the previous ones adopted at the 63 and 64 sessions of the United Nations General Assembly is presented in a deformed light. South-Ossetian and Abkhazian delegations at the International Geneva discussions in the joint statement from June, 7, 2011 have already emphasized that Georgia under the pretext of reference to a humanitarian range of problems - as it is the refugee and the internally displaced persons problems- is imposing to the world community the false vision of the problem, pursuing its basic target - to support its claims to the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The international conference of the Scientific Society of the Caucasus researchers will take place in Tskhinval. The conference is called «Problems of the Caucasus and modern Caucasus exploration, the role of external and internal factors in the region development». The action started yesterday, on June, 30, in the capital of North Ossetia. Today, on July 1, the participants of the conference are intending to continue the dialogue in the capital of South Ossetia. The conference co-organizer on the South-Ossetian part is the South-Ossetian research institute. According to the director of the research institute Robert Gagloev, the question of conflicts, demography and a role of mass-media will be considered at the conference.

The concert of the Caucasian variety stars «The Ode to Tskhinval» will pass today in the capital of South Ossetia -Tskhinval. As the news agency "Res" has been informed at the organizing committee of cultural actions, the concert will take place within the limits of the ceremonial decoration of the President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity with a gold order and awarding him honorary title of «the Holder of the international order «Knight of honour."

The head of the administration of Tskhinvalskiy region in South Ossetia Inal Pukhaev has declared the news agency "Res" that the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly does not concern South Ossetia as it is not a part of Georgia. «We are the separate state, and what is adopted in Georgia, does not concern us», - Pukhaev has said. We should notice that the United Nations General assembly has adopted the resolution «Position of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and Tskhinvalskiy region /South Ossetia, Georgia».The document has been considered during the session «Prolonged conflicts on the Guam space and their consequences for international peace, safety and development». Pukhaev has underlined: «If these "refugees "have been asked, whether they want to live in the independent Republic of South Ossetia?

The Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia

According to the information of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of South Ossetia official Tbilisi intends to carry out large-scale provocations on the border with the Republic of South Ossetia. Within the frames of implementing this intention, the Georgian special services are planning to organize mass unapproved crossing of the Ossetian-Georgian border by the so-called "refugees" - the citizens who have voluntarily left the territory of South Ossetia during the Georgian aggression in August, 2008. The action is intended for compelling the south-ossetian party to apply force that will be widely spread by the Georgian and the western mass-media, and responsibility for its possible consequences is planned to shift onto the authorities of the Republic of South Ossetia. It is supposed in Tbilisi that this large-scale provocation can bring Saakashvili's regime political dividends in the course of campaign for world community misinformation about a real state of affairs in the sphere of settlement of relations between Georgia and South Ossetia and to prevent a serious stabilizing role of the Russian Federation in strengthening safety of the Republic of South Ossetia on the border with Georgia.

Today the United Nations General Assembly has put to the vote the resolution initiated three years ago by the Georgian party- «About the position of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia». Last year the United Nations General Assembly with the 50 voices pro and 17 voices contra has adopted the resolution initiated by the Georgian party. In contains anxiety "by violent change of the demographic situation as a result of the conflicts in Georgia". In this connection, a South-Ossetian expert Inal Pliev has declared the news agency "Res" that «in 1991-1992, after a genocide and ethnic cleansings of the Ossetian population living in the former Georgia and temporarily occupied part of the territory of South Ossetia by the army of the State Council of Georgia, the United Nations did not express its concern in regard to the «violent change of the demographic situation in Borzhomi, Bakuriani, Tbilisi, Gori, Gudzhareti, Kakheti, Kareli (Georgia) and South Ossetia, but even as a sign of special encouragement of ethnic cleansings of the Ossetians has included Georgia in its ranks». We should note that last year the General Assembly recognized "the right for returning of the all internally displaced persons and refugees and their descendants, irrespective of ethnic belonging, to their houses all over the territory of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Ossetia".

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is considering a question on rendering assistance to the inhabitants of the regions of South Ossetia which has suffered from flood. It has been informed the news agency "Res" by the head of the ICRC press-service Maria Tedety. As she has said, after the flood the ICRC representatives have immediately left in Znaurskiy and Leningorskiy region to estimate the degree of the damage.

The Chairman of the Parliamentary Law, legislation and Local self-government Committee of South Ossetia Amiran of Diaconov has declared the news agency "Res" that at the moment of recognition of Georgia by the United Nations and also its inclusion in the United Nations South Ossetia has been already an independent state with the statutory constitution of the Republic of South Ossetia, and at that period de facto and de jure it has been not more a part of Georgia. We should notice that the of the United Nations General Assembly has adopted the resolution «Position of the internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and Tshkinvalskiy region / South Ossetia, Georgia».