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There are no representatives of the Ossetian diaspora among the victims of the earthquake in Turkey, Ramzi Kanukov, the authorized representative of South Ossetia in Turkey, told IA "Res".

“The earthquake was strong; the city of Izmir was badly damaged. There were people among the rubble, a large number of people were injured, and there are also victims. As far as we know, there are no Ossetians among the victims of the earthquake,” Kanukov said.

The opening of a trade mission of South Ossetia in Moscow will give an additional impetus to relations between the two countries in the field of trade and economic cooperation, said the Acting Prime Minister Gennady Bekoev.

"The Russian Federation is the main strategic partner of South Ossetia, with which we have established long-term and strong cultural and humanitarian ties, and interstate trade is developing," Bekoev told reporters, commenting on the opening of a trade mission in Russia.

Due to the current restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic, the delegation of South Ossetia is ready to work online, said Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia, head of the South Ossetian delegation, Murat Dzhioev.

As noted by the Plenipotentiary, the South Ossetian side expressed its readiness for constructive work within the framework of the Geneva discussions, "taking into account all the opportunities of this year."

Memorable events of recent history hardly give Georgia the right to mediate in the settlement of the conflict between neighbors, said Elena Panina, a member of the State Duma's International Affairs Committee.

Earlier, President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili made a proposal that the republic could become a mediator in the Karabakh conflict and hold a meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group in Tbilisi.

South Ossetia is the independent state and will be developing in its own way, ”Amiran Dyakonov, head of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Religion and Media, said in a comment to the IA “Res”, responding to the statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg about supporting the territorial integrity of Georgia, its sovereignty within internationally recognized borders.

“It is clear that for the NATO countries Georgia is an instrument of their geopolitical ambitions. The question is that South Ossetia has not been a part of Georgia for a long time,”Dyakonov said.

Chairman of the South Ossetian Parliament Alan Tadtayev strongly condemned Azerbaijan's revanchist actions against the Republic of Artsakh, the press service of the Republic’s legislative body reported.

The military actions unleashed in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic threaten the security of the region as a whole, the Speaker said.

September 20 is one of the most important significant dates in the history of South Ossetia: our people have achieved the embodiment of their historical dream - the state of Alania has been created. This opinion was expressed by the first President of the Republic, Ludwig Chibirov, in a comment to the IA "Res".

In Moscow, on September 15, 2009, the defense Ministers of Russia and South Ossetia signed an Agreement on military cooperation, which resulted from the Treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia of September 17, 2008.

The events in post-election Belarus clearly showed who is a friend and a reliable ally of the Belarusian people, and who has never been, an official representative of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry said in a comment to the IA Res.

The decision of the operational staff to lift restrictions on the border of South Ossetia with Russia is not a momentary one, but the result of purposeful work, Dmitry Medoev, a member of the operational staff, acting foreign Minister of the Republic, told IA "RES".