Another provocation by Georgia took place near the village of Khurvaleti, said the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the meetings in the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM), Egor Kochiev.
According to him, thanks to the clear actions of the South Ossetian and Georgian law enforcement agencies, with the mediation of the European Union Monitoring Mission, the matter did not reach a serious incident.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev on behalf of President Anatoly Bibilov delivered a welcoming speech at the international conference “Crimea in Modern Geopolitics - 5th Anniversary of the Crimean Spring,” the press service of the South Ossetia Embassy in Russia reports.
Families of the missing South Ossetian citizens do not intend to speculate on the remains of the Georgian citizens, and they hope that Georgia will respond by indicating the location of our missing citizens, told reporters Lidiya Kudzieva, the Chairman of the public organization“Memory and Hope“.
She has noted that in 2017, in the area of the village of Tamarasheni, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together with the South Ossetian side exhumed the remains of the citizens buried there who had been lost during the war in August 2008.
On March 18, South Ossetia is commemorating the 28th anniversary of the memory of the victims of the Ered tragedy, one of the worst and most inhuman events in the history of mankind, when Georgian gangs seized a truck with civilians and, after tortures and abuses, they were buried alive in one grave near the village of Ered, - said Speaker of the RSO Peter Gassiev in his address to the citizens of the Republic.
The delegation of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People's Republic, which arrived in Tskhinval, discussed with the South Ossetian colleagues plans for further cooperation. According to the press service of the emergency department of the Republic of South Ossetia, the meeting discussed the provision on the creation of a joint commission to implement the signed intergovernmental agreement between the Emergencies Ministry of the two republics "On cooperation in the field of emergency prevention and response."
The military-political situation around the Republic of South Ossetia has a tendency to become more complicated, said Major General Viktor Fedorov, Chief of the General Staff of the Republic's Armed Forces, speaking at the reporting meeting of the Defense Ministry.
The co-chairs of the Geneva International Discussions on Security in Transcaucasia, who arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit, visited the National Museum, accompanied by the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.
Director of the museum Merab Zasseev last Tuesday introduced the guests to the culture and history of Ossetia, telling the guests about the origins of the ethnic group, the richest Scythian-Sarmatian-Alanian heritage.
Geneva security discussions in Transcaucasia will arrive in Tskhinval on Tuesday.
According to the press service of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement, “the EU, the UN and the OSCE co-chairs will arrive in Tskhinval on the eve of the next round of the Geneva discussions, which will be held on April 2-3. Here they will discuss with South Ossetian colleagues the issues of preparation for the meeting in Geneva,”
Putin is confident that the upcoming parliamentary elections in South Ossetia will be held on a democratic basis, Russia will continue to ensure the security of South Ossetia
Russian President Vladimir Putin, opening talks with South Ossetian President Anatoly Bibilov, promised that Russia would send its observers to monitor the transparency and cleanliness of parliamentary elections in the Republic.
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the talks with South Ossetia’s President Anatoly Bibilov has stressed that Russia remains the leading trade and economic partner, which has an investment program and a number of other programs aimed at supporting the republic. "I am happy to have this opportunity to discuss this today ", - he said.
Anatoly Bibilov, in turn, has noted that the agreements signed in 2015 are being implemented effectively.