Archive - 7/2019

In Geneva, the question was raised again about the need to strengthen the work on legally binding instruments on the non-use of force between Georgia and South Ossetia, Georgia and Abkhazia, which would have firm international guarantees, said the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement of the Republic Murat Dzhioev.

According to him, the work took place in two working groups. The first working group discussed security issues near the borders of the Republic of South Ossetia with Georgia, while the second group dealt with humanitarian issues.

The third anniversary of the signing of an agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia on the formation and operation of a joint information and coordination center of the internal affairs bodies was marked in South Ossetia with solemn events attended by President Anatoly Bibilov, Chairman of the Government Eric Pukhaev, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov , Interior Minister Igor Naniev, heads of security agencies and other guests who were officially met in front of the administrative building of the Center.

The Russian delegation will insist on the rejection of two draft resolutions on Crimea and the observance of human rights in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which will be proposed during the 28th session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. This was reported to journalists on Thursday by the head of the delegation, the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Peter Tolstoy.

“Our delegation is all in the assembly, we will work including on the agenda that our opponents are proposing,” he said. “We will propose removing two resolutions: on the Crimea and on South Ossetia.”

Report of the South Ossetian delegation to the media on the outcome of the 48th round of the Geneva Security Discussions in Transcaucasia

On July 2-3, 20197, a regular round of international discussions on security in Transcaucasia took place in Geneva. The delegations of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, the Russian Federation, the USA, as well as representatives of the EU, the UN and the OSCE took part in it. The South Ossetian delegation was headed by the Presidential Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement, Murat Dzhioev.

South Ossetia and Abkhazia insist on their right to participate in the discussion of the problem of refugees in the UN, according to a joint statement of the republics at the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia.

President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, sent a telegram of condolences to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in connection with the death of submariners in the Barents Sea, the press service of the head of state reports.

"With a feeling of deep sorrow, I took the news of the terrible tragedy on the nuclear submarine AS-12 in the Barents Sea, which killed 14 officers of the Northern Fleet.

The events of June 20-21 in Tbilisi complicated the course of the Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia, making them more nervous, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Wednesday after another round of discussions.

Russia considers theses about the accelerated admission of Georgia to NATO dangerous, said Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on Wednesday after another round of Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia.

"A separate topic we, together with our partners from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, highlighted the themes of the growing activity of the US and NATO in the South Caucasus region; numerous, rather large-scale multinational exercises of this military-political bloc," said Karasin.

Fourteen submariners of the Navy died in a fire at a deep-sea research facility.

Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev sent a note of condolences to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in connection with the tragedy in the Barents Sea.

The leaders of the international social movement "Ossetes Higher Council" - the Chairman Ruslan Kuchiev and his Deputy Vyacheslav Dzagoev - are in South Ossetia.

On July 3, they met with President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the South Ossetian Council "High Ossetian Council" Robert Gagloyty.