Archive - 7/2013

July 30, Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia David Sanakoev received a head of the Tskhinval office of the International Committee of the Red Cross Valentina Kim.
As the news agency "Res" was informed at the press service of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic, in the course of the meeting had been discussed the activities of the ICRC in South Ossetia, in particular, Ms. Kim informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the work of the organization in South Ossetia in recent months.

Heads of security, defence and law enforcement agencies of South Ossetia have made today a working trip to the village of Artsev in Tskhinval district of the Republic. In front of the building of the rural administration, where is also located the Interior Department, gathered a few dozen people to ask their questions and to talk about their problems.

The South Ossetian delegation at the meeting of participants of the Mechanisms to Prevent and Respond to Incidents (MPRI) declined to discuss with Georgia the issues of the state border arrangement, said the journalists Deputy Presidential Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Khokh Gagloyty after the MPRI meeting.

The war in August 2008. On the eve of invasion...

July 30, 2008 the KGB of South Ossetia issued a statement that the Georgian side in order to destabilize the political situation in South Ossetia and to extrude the Ossetian population from the territory of the Republic, intended to continue the policy of escalation of tension in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.
Georgian special services committed a series of terrorist acts, sending eight car bombs into the territory of South Ossetia.

Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia Ilya II said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had promised to return Georgian refugees to South Ossetia. This is stated in the article of the Georgian news website "Georgia Online" on July 28, 2013, "Ilya II hopes that Putin will fulfill the promise to return refugees."
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The war in August 2008. On the eve of invasion ...

At the end of July 2008 the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict escalated down to the limit. The Georgian armed forces started regularly shelling the capital and the villages of South Ossetia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia was instructed to revise the issue of staying the Mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia. Such an order was given by President Leonid Tibilov at today`s enlarged meeting with the heads of ministries and agencies.

The Memorandum of cooperation signed between the Security Councils of South Ossetia and Russia, defines the main directions of cooperation between power structures of both countries. This was stated by the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov at the extended meeting with the government of the Republic of South Ossetia said Security Council Secretary Anatoly Pliev.

On the eve of the Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014, in the territory of South Ossetia may become more active various religious-extremist and terrorist groups. This was stated by the President of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov at an extended meeting with the heads of ministries and agencies of the Republic.

The war in August 2008. On the eve of invasion ...

The population of South Ossetia for more than 20 years of confrontation with Georgia repeatedly faced the economic, humanitarian and psychological blackmail. Every time the official Tbilisi tried to find justification of its sophisticated actions. Another "peace initiative" of the Georgian authorities for "settlement" of relations with South Ossetia was a water blockade of Tskhinval and the districts of the Republic, which began in the spring of 2007 and continued until August 2008.