The President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has called the people and the deputies of the Parliament of the Republic to the unity. It is told in the today’s appeal of the head of the state. Here is a full text of the appeal. - Dear friends! For many years we have been fighting for the freedom of our people shoulder to shoulder.
Today at the Parliament session in Tskhinval the agreements between the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Nicaragua have been ratified. The session was conducted by the Speaker of the Parliament of the RSO Stanislav Kochiev. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSO Murat Dzhioev has also been invited to the session. The South-Ossetian parliamentarians have ratified the bilateral agreements on cooperation with the Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Nicaragua signed in July, 2010. The deputies have also ratified the Agreement between the government of the RSO and the government of Nicaragua about mutual visa-free trips of citizens of the Republic of the RSO and Nicaragua, signed in Managua, the Republic of Nicaragua on July, 20 2010. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSO Murat Dzhioev has informed the parliamentarians on the work done by the Ministry in 2010.
Siukaeva Olga Aleksandrovna, 1969 d.b., an inhabitant of Tskhinval
I live on Heroes Street; this is one of the main streets of Tskhinval where the fights between the Georgian soldiers and the local boys have been taking place during the August war of 2008. On the night of August 8, about 12 o’clock the war has started. Terrible explosions have been resounded; one could not describe all horror which I have suffered that moment. Fear has seized me; I lost my head and instantly fell down on the floor. I was with my elderly mother at home. I have crawled to her room; it was terrible even to lift a head. My poor mother was sitting in the corner, trembling with fear. We have hardly gone down into the cellar, becoming weak in the knees.
The bill of Georgia about issuing the identity cards in South Ossetia and Abkhazia - is absolutely unacceptable for the Republic. It has been declared the news agency "Res" by the Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of the RSO Yury Dzitstsoity in regards to the intention of the Georgian Parliament to consider this question within the next few days. «Georgia, as well as some other countries which support it, pretends that there are no any recognized states, as South Ossetia and Abkhazia. They are ignoring them in each possible way and are searching the so-called" alternative «settlement ways», - has declared Dzitstsoity.
On May, 31, 2011 by the Decree of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity the State Counsellor of the President of the RSO Kozaev Narim Zakharovich was appointed to the position of the Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Yesterday the ex-president of Georgia Edward Shevardnadze has declared that « the films like «The Five days of August "any more will not change the report of the commission of the EU in which is told that the Georgians the first began the military operations, having attacked Tskhinval». The Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on the post conflict settlement Boris Chochiev has given the comments about it. «What Shevardnadze has told in three years - the world community knew not only after the August aggression, but also after the report of the independent commission led by Mrs. Hajdi Taljavini», - Chochiev has told.
The visit of the South-Ossetian journalists to Israel at the end of May - the beginning of June, 2011 had the purpose of promoting the development of bilateral contacts. It`s not a secret that the Jews are connected with the capital of the RSO Tskhinval in many respects. According to some information there is the most ancient in the Caucasus synagogue here. And for South Ossetia which is, "owing to" the policy of isolationism, conducted by the international structures, except for Russia practically in vacuum, the contacts both with the West and with the East are very important. A lot of our former compatriots, who have been watching the events in South Ossetia with interest, live in Israel.
In honour of the Day of Russia a gala concert with participation of the Russian folk group «The Red May rose» from St.-Petersburg, a performer from North Ossetia Valery Bugulov and the South-Ossetian dancing choreographic groups has taken place in Tskhinval. The concert has passed in the evening of June, 12. During the whole evening the Russian group «The Red May rose» which has visited South Ossetia for the first time was charging the people which have gathered on a central square of Tskhinval with the positive energy. Having started the performance with the hymn of Russia, the soloists of the group have sung a number of national-variety songs.
The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity has sent the congratulatory telegram to the Prime Minister of the government of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the occasion of celebrating the Day of Russia. It has been reported the News agency "Res» at the Presidential Administration of the Republic. «Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! On behalf of the people of the Republic of South Ossetia and for myself personally I have honour to send you sincere congratulations on the occasion of celebrating the Day of Russia. - is told, in particular, in the telegram. - This holiday – is a symbol of the national unification and general responsibility for the present and the future of Russia, personifying indissolubility of centuries-old traditions of the Russian statehood and the values of freedom and democracy». Eduard Kokoity has noticed that there were great victories, pain and joy, grief and triumph in the history of Russia.
The President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity on behalf of the people of South Ossetia and for himself personally has congratulated the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev on the Day of Russia. It has been reported the News agency "Res» at the Presidential Administration of the Republic of South Ossetia. «Reunion of the people for the sake of preservation of rich history, unique culture, formation of the powerful and worthy state in which there should live the future generations - here is the high idea which is taken as a principle of the Day of Russia, - is told in a congratulation of the President. - At all times the love for their country and indefatigable work of citizens of Russia provided its progress and turned it the mighty and prospering state. And today the creative potential of Russia, fidelity to traditions of friendship and tolerance, unification and patriotism are the basis of success in all future affairs and fulfillments, support of statehood and democratic development of the society».