The co-chairs of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia, arrived today in Tskhinval, have met with the families of the citizens of South Ossetia who are serving sentences on trumped-up charges in Georgia.
Opera singer, Honored Artist of the RSO and RSO- Alania, People's Artist of North Ossetia-Alania Veronika Dzhioeva (soprano), has been nominated for the Russian theater award "Golden Mask" in the prestigious nomination "Opera / Female role". According to Dzhioeva, she has been nominated for the "Golden Mask" for a second time.
In early February 2015 the Georgian media sources published that in one of the Georgian jails a group of prisoners had gone on hunger strike.
The information that citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia Giorgi Valiev, George Zaseev and Joseph Kochiev, illegally detained by law enforcement agencies of Georgia in 2005 and convicted on trumped-up charges to life imprisonment by the Georgian authorities, January 26 went on hunger strike, has caused great concern in South Ossetia.
Taking into account that the multi-day hunger strike, the fourth in recent years, can seriously affect their health, the Office of the Plenipotentiary Presidential Envoy of the RSO for post-conflict settlement appealed to the EU Observer Mission in Georgia and the International Committee of the Red Cross with a request to inquire into the state of health of these citizens, and to inform the South Ossetian side.
South Ossetian party has constantly raised the question of the release of Valiev, Zasseev and Kochiev at the Geneva discussions, the MPRI meetings and other international forums with the participation of representatives of South Ossetia and Georgia.
South Ossetian side has repeatedly proposed to release the prisoners on a reciprocal basis, but there is not yet any understanding by the Georgian side in this humane gesture.
The development of the draft Treaty of alliance and integration between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation has reached the final stage. The document has already been agreed with the South Ossetian ministries and agencies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent it to the Russian Foreign Ministry for a similar procedure in the Russian Federation.
South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov thanked the members of the Political Council for unanimity and responsible approach in drafting the Treaty of Alliance and integration between South Ossetia and Russia.
"It was a serious and hard work. Thank you for a responsible approach and unanimity. Both the political council and the working group were actively working on the proposals received from the public, political parties, individual citizens", - said the president today at a meeting of the political council.
According to the president, this work resulted in the South Ossetian draft Treaty which was then sent for approval to Moscow.
«Freedom house» during the preparation of their reports are based on subjective measures that distort the real situation in different countries, told the news agency "Res" Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia David Sanakoev.