South Ossetian Parliament ratified an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and South Ossetia on cooperation in the provision of specialized, including high-tech, health care, as well as the provision of medicines.
A citizen of South Ossetia Boris Turashvili, convicted in Georgia on trumped -up charges, went on a hunger strike. As reported to journalists Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev, Turashvili had been convicted in January 2010 for the long term.
South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov received the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the Republic of Tatarstan Irek Fayzullin, who arrived in the Republic on a working visit. As stated by the press service of the President and the Government of South Ossetia, the meeting was also attended by First Deputy Prime Minister of South Ossetia Domenty Kulumbegov and Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of South Ossetia Eduard Dzagoev.
South Ossetian Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia Murat Dzhioev summarized for mass media representatives the results of the December 17-18 round of Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia. Reminding that the main purpose of the discussions is to develop the agreements on the non-use of force by Georgia against South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the envoy has noted that the Georgian delegation once again tried to steer the conversation into the direction of Georgian-Russian relations which are not the subject of discussion in Geneva.
Moscow hosted the meeting of the joint working group of South Ossetia and Russia on the development and monitoring the implementation of the Investment program to support socio-economic development of South Ossetia. As reported in an interview with journalists the First Deputy Prime Minister of South Ossetia Domenty Kulumbegov the meeting had been held in Moscow on December 19-21.