Archive - 4/2019

During the Geneva discussions, South Ossetia appealed to international organizations to influence Georgia on the issue of searching for missing citizens of the republic, since the Georgian side does not follow the recommendations of an independent expert invited to investigate. The head of the South Ossetian delegation, the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for post-conflict settlement issues Murat Dzhioev informed the news agency “Res” on Thursday.

The next (47) round of international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia took place on April 2-3 in Geneva.

The next round of the Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia is planned to be held in July this year, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.

“The next meeting in Geneva is scheduled for July 2019,” the message said on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which was published following a consultation in Geneva of this format on April 2-3.

Representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, South Ossetia and the USA took part in the discussions. Russia was represented at this meeting by Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Republic of Nicaragua Narim Kozaev presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic reports.

The official ceremony took place on April 3 at the House of Nations in Managua. Vice-President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, took part in the ceremony of presenting credentials.

For propaganda purposes, official Tbilisi continues to disseminate false statements of its intent to establish and develop comprehensive relations with Russia. However, in fact, we see a completely opposite attitude. Provocative actions of the NGOs controlled by the Georgian authorities, which contribute to further destabilization of the areas bordering South Ossetia, do not stop.

One of the most active NGOs, which is the mouthpiece of the Georgian government in unbridled anti-Russian and anti-Ossetian hysteria, is the so-called "Anti-occupation movement" Strength in unity. "

Russia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, on the eve of the regular Geneva Discussions that started on April 2 in Switzerland, reaffirmed the relevance of this international format.

The corresponding statements with a small interval sounded by Russian, South Ossetian and Abkhaz diplomats, becoming a kind of response to the recent statement by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili about the need to create a new international format at a higher political level.

President Anatoly Bibilov received the Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for the Affairs of the North Caucasus, Igor Koshin, who arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit. According to the presidential press service and the government, the meeting was also attended by the Chairman of the Government Eric Pukhaev, Head of the Presidential Executive Office Igor Kozaev, Deputy Head of the President of the Russian Federation on Border Cooperation Denis Travin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation Marat Kulakhmetov.

The South Ossetian party expects that its proposals for improving the effectiveness of the Geneva discussions on the preparation of a document on non-use of force will receive a positive impetus at the talks in Geneva, said Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy, the head of the South Ossetian delegation in Geneva, Murat Dzhioev.

The Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia start on Tuesday, April 2, and will be held for two days.