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Participants of the 26 round of international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia, scheduled for December 18 in Geneva, will discuss the situation on the state border of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with Georgia, as well as socio-economic development of the region.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the main theme of the security group is traditionally to develop reliable guarantees of non-use of force by Georgia against neighboring states;
it will continue the consideration of draft documents in this sphere, including the Russian initiative on adopting a joint declaration of all participants of the Geneva discussions on the non-use of force. Furthermore, at the Geneva meeting will be reviewed the activities of the Mechanisms for preventing and responding to incidents at the South Ossetian- Georgian and Georgian - Abkhazian border.
The humanitarian group will continue discussions on the issues of interest to the participants, including the exchange of detained persons in the border areas and the search for the missing persons.
The Geneva discussions are held since October 2008 after the armed aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia. They involve representatives of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia, the Russian Federation, Georgia, United States of America, as well as the UN, OSCE and EU.
South Ossetian delegation is led by Presidential Envoy of the RSO for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

The first priority for the government of South Ossetia today is the restoration of housing and socio-economic infrastructure damaged during the Georgian aggression in August 2008, said today Deputy Prime Domenti Kulumbegov at a press conference in Tskhinval.
According to him, this work includes not only the implementation of the Investment Program to promote socio-economic development of South Ossetia; steps are being taken to ensure the construction of unfinished projects to be completed in the coming year.
"This is in the forefront of the Investment program to promote socio-economic development of South Ossetia in 2014, so that in future we`ll be able to go over to the development of economy of the Republic," - said Deputy Prime Minister.
He has stressed that along with the social facilities, construction and restoration of which is included in the Investment program in 2014, will continue housing development, as well as the development of the border areas of the Republic.
"As part of these activities first of all in the current year will be restored water supply to the villages in Leningor district where this problem has been pressing for a long time," - said Deputy Prime Minister .
The development of other areas is included in the investment programme for the next years.
"The leadership of the Republic will support agricultural projects, tourism and other areas. We have just put them for a year, as we need to complete the facilities of protracted construction."
Kulumbegov also told about the activities of the working group that interacts with the Assistant to the President of Russia for Cooperation with the CIS countries, South Ossetia and Abkhazia Vladislav Surkov. According to him, this work is not limited by investment issues, are also resolved other vital issues, arising in the course of collaboration and the main result of the work of this working group is the increase of financial aid to South Ossetia in 2014, which will amount to 1 billion - 2.8 billion rubles.
"With the appointment of Surkov the methods to solving the problems of South Ossetia have become more balanced and clear, appropriate to the situation in the restoration process," - said Kulumbegov, noting that previously there was no clear and systematic work that caused the ineffective execution of plans for the restoration of the Republic.

The Trade Agreement, signed with Russia, opens wide possibilities to revive the economy of South Ossetia, said at a press conference in Tskhinval Deputy Prime Minister of South Ossetia Domenty Kulumbegov.

State Duma has ratified an agreement with South Ossetia on the duty-free importation of goods with preservation of seizure on some of the most considerable commodity items.

The Trade Agreement signed between South Ossetia and Russia will be the basis for building further economic relations with Russia, said a Chairman of the Union of Entrepreneurs, MP Marina Dzigoeva in her interview with the news agency "Res".

Parliamentary delegation of South Ossetia headed by Vice Speaker Yuri Dzitstsoity attended a meeting of the Commission for Co-operation of the Federation Council and the Parliament of South Ossetia, which was held in Moscow today. The South Ossetian delegation is composed of Deputy Speaker Mira Tskhovrebova and a Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for legislation, legality and local self-government Amiran Diaconov.

The agreement on free trade with Russia will give a new impetus to the development of the economy of South Ossetia, said Prime Minister of South Ossetia Rostik Khugaev in his interview with the news agency "Res".
According to him, South Ossetian entrepreneurs can run and develop their business in the most favorable conditions.
"With such a vast market like Russian and having the same conditions as the Russian entrepreneurs, we must do everything to make proper use of these opportunities," - said Khugaev.

Prime Minister of South Ossetia Rostik Khugaev held a meeting with heads of security, defence and law enforcement agencies, during which was discussed the operational situation in the Republic over the past week.

South Ossetia again proposed to Georgia mutual exchange of prisoners. The issue was discussed during today's meeting of the participants of the Mechanisms for preventing and responding to incidents (MPRI) held in the frontier village of Ergneti.

Actors of South-Ossetian State Drama Theatre named after Kosta Khetagurov became winners in nomination "The Best Duet" at the VI International Festival of Theatres of the North Caucasus "Stage without Borders," held in North Ossetia December 2 - 6.
According to the art director Edward Kelekhsaev, at the festival was presented the play "He, she the window, the deceased."
"The winners in nomination "The Best Duet" became Dmitry Parastaev and Soslan Bibilov," - said Kelekhsaev.
He has noted that the festival was also attended by North Ossetian State Academic Theater, Abkhazian State Drama Theatre, Digorian State Drama Theatre and theaters of Kabardino-Balkaria, Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Adygea, Kalmykia.
The play by the English playwright Ray Cooney "He, she, the window, the deceased" in Ossetian language was premiered at the South Ossetian Theater in April, 2013. The show was directed by the stage director Edward Kelekhsaev. The leading roles are performed by Honored Artists of South Ossetia Dmitry Parastaev and Soslan Bibilov.