President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov has received an Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Government of South Ossetia Eric Pukhaev, the head of the Presidential Executive Office of the Republic Igor Kozaev, the Deputy Head of the Presidential Department for Socio- Economic Cooperation with the States- members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia Denis Travin, Chief Adviser of Department of the Presidential Executive Office for socio-economic cooperation with CIS countries participants in the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia Alexey Filatov.
Anatoly Bibilov has expressed gratitude to Vladislav Surkov for his close attention to the issues of South Ossetia.
"For several years you are directly involved in the problems of South Ossetia - Bibilov said. "And we can see perfectly well that since you began to supervise the processes of restoring the infrastructure and economy in our Republic, we have seen the results."
I want to thank you for close attention to South Ossetia. This also applies to the implementation of the Treaty of Alliance and Integration, which is in full swing. Those additional agreements, which have been defined by the Treaty, are also being implemented. "
Bibilov also congratulated Vladimir Surkov on the upcoming holiday - the Day of Russia, noting that as a sign of great respect for the Russian state, this day in South Ossetia is a day off.
Vladislav Surkov, in turn, thanked the President for the warm welcome, expressing his support in implementing the plans for the development of the Republic.
"You intend to make certain adjustments to the development of the economy, integration with Russia and other areas of state building, and I want to say that we are open to dialogue, ready to take these innovations and discussing them. I think, basically, we will support them, since we are like-minded people, "Surkov said. - I want to tell you again many thanks for the fact that you, being the chairman of the parliament, the leader of the parliamentary majority, very much supported us in our desire to deepen the integration of our countries. And I think that you played a decisive role in the fact that we have this Treaty in that edition, which maximally promotes the closest possible rapprochement of our countries. "
