Archive - 2023

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin met in Moscow with the heads of the delegations of Abkhazia and South Ossetia at the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia.

According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the meeting was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Irakli Tuzhba and State Advisor to President of South Ossetia Konstantin Kochiev, who head national delegations at the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia .

On Friday, Grigory Karasin, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, was awarded the Order of Honor of South Ossetia.

The profile committee of the Parliament of South Ossetia will work out the issue of sending an appeal to the legislative body of Belarus to recognize the independence of the Republic.

According to the press service of the Parliament, such a proposal was made at the session of the Parliament on Wednesday by the Chairman of the Committee on Economics, Small business and Agriculture Alan Tekhov.

The Border Service of the State Security Committee of South Ossetia is implementing a set of measures to prevent the commission of offenses in the field of protecting the state border.

According to the press service of the department, in the first half of 2023, 185 violators of the law in the border area were detained at various sections of the state border of South Ossetia, of which: 8 violators of the state border, 86 violators of the state border regime, 91 – of the border regime.

“The Border Service conducted investigations on each fact of violation of legal regimes.

South Ossetia and Venezuela will be able to fully realize the significant potential of bilateral cooperation, enriching it with new examples of successful interaction that meets the interests of the two nations. This is stated in the congratulation of the South Ossetian leader Alan Gagloev to President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro in connection with the celebration of Independence Day.

The entire path of state building in Venezuela is the history of the courageous struggle of the heroic Bolivarian people for their right to freedom and independence. This is stated in the congratulatory message of Foreign Minister of South Ossetia, Akhsar Dzhioev, to Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela, Ivan Gil Pinto, on the occasion of the Independence Day of the republic, the press service of the Foreign Ministry of South Ossetia reports.

The state has the right to use any means against unmanned aerial vehicles if its airspace is violated, the head of the South Ossetian delegation Уgor Kochiev noted after the meeting in the IPRM format, answering the question of whether the parties discussed the new procedure for the use of weapons and military equipment during protection of the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia.

South Ossetia continues to insist on the removal of the Georgian post in the village of Uista from the territory of the Republic.

As noted by the head of the South Ossetian delegation Yegor Kochiev after the meeting in the IPRM format, this was announced by the South Ossetian party.

“Since the previous meeting, there have been no incidents in the area of the village of Uista, but earlier there were cases when actions of an incomprehensible nature were recorded by the Georgian police, the presence of incomprehensible persons on the territory of the talc plant.

South Ossetian leader Alan Gagloev congratulated President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the Independence Day of the republic, the press service of the head of state reports.

Gagloev has noted that the significant day of July 3, 1944 is of lasting importance not only for the people of Belarus, but also "for all of us as a heroic page in the history of the struggle against German Nazism for freedom, for the right to live in our native land."

Another meeting in the format of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) will be held on the border of South Ossetia and Georgia on Monday, the press service of the Office of the RSO Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for Post-Conflict Settlement told IA "Res".

"Security issues and violations of the state border will be discussed at the meeting in the village of Ergneti. The South Ossetian party will once again raise the issue of removing the illegal Georgian police post from the territory of South Ossetia," the press service said.