In connection with the explosion at the petroleum refinery Amuay, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia has sent condolences to the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Republic of South Ossetia.
For four years South Ossetia has been living in a recognized independent country and the authorities are doing everything to improve the welfare of their citizens. As the RSO President Leonid Tibilov reported journalists at the briefing, "we are working hard to raise the standard of living of our people, as people are worthy of it, and we will do everything to ensure that the welfare of the people would be not lower than in the neighboring countries," - said the president.
Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia
With regard to the fourth anniversary of the recognition of the independence of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation
August 26 the Republic of South Ossetia is celebrating the fourth anniversary of recognition of the independence of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation. This day in the modern history of the Ossetian people is a significant and turning point. The decision on the recognition of the state independence of the Republic of South Ossetia was motivated by years of national liberation struggle for self-preservation and realization of the rights of our people to national statehood since1989.
On the eve of the Day of Russia`s recognition of independence of South Ossetia President of the RSO Leonid Tibilov met with the Ossetian peacekeepers staff of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces, disbanded in 2010.