The (47th round of international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia was held on April 2-3 in Geneva. The delegations of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, the Russian Federation, the USA, as well as representatives of the EU, UN and OSCE took part in them.
During the Geneva discussions, South Ossetia appealed to international organizations to influence Georgia on the issue of searching for missing citizens of the republic, since the Georgian side does not follow the recommendations of an independent expert invited to investigate. The head of the South Ossetian delegation, the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy for post-conflict settlement issues Murat Dzhioev informed the news agency “Res” on Thursday.
The next (47) round of international discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia took place on April 2-3 in Geneva.
The next round of the Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia is planned to be held in July this year, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.
“The next meeting in Geneva is scheduled for July 2019,” the message said on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry, which was published following a consultation in Geneva of this format on April 2-3.
Representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, South Ossetia and the USA took part in the discussions. Russia was represented at this meeting by Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Republic of Nicaragua Narim Kozaev presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic reports.
The official ceremony took place on April 3 at the House of Nations in Managua. Vice-President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, took part in the ceremony of presenting credentials.
President Anatoly Bibilov received the Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for the Affairs of the North Caucasus, Igor Koshin, who arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit. According to the presidential press service and the government, the meeting was also attended by the Chairman of the Government Eric Pukhaev, Head of the Presidential Executive Office Igor Kozaev, Deputy Head of the President of the Russian Federation on Border Cooperation Denis Travin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation Marat Kulakhmetov.
The South Ossetian party expects that its proposals for improving the effectiveness of the Geneva discussions on the preparation of a document on non-use of force will receive a positive impetus at the talks in Geneva, said Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy, the head of the South Ossetian delegation in Geneva, Murat Dzhioev.
The Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia start on Tuesday, April 2, and will be held for two days.
President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov met with the Vice-President of the Skolkovo Foundation, Alexander Chernov, the press service of the head of state reports.
Anatoly Bibilov expressed hope for the elaboration of issues related to various projects and the participation of South Ossetia in them.
“I hope you will have the opportunity to assess the potential of South Ossetia and to some extent work through the issues related to various projects of Skolkovo.” For my part, I can assure you of all-round support,” said the President.
Deputies on Thursday ratified an Agreementon friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between South Ossetia and the Lugansk People’s Republic.
The draft law was submitted to parliamentarians by Alexander Pliev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and Inter-Parliamentary Activity.
He has noted that the agreement was signed by the President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov and the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik on December 29, 2018 in the framework of the first official visit of the head of the LPR to South Ossetia.
Five drones at the same time crossed the border of South Ossetia from Georgia and flew to the city of Kvaisa, the head of the South Ossetian delegation Yegor Kochiev told reporters after the official part of the meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM).
The South Ossetian party once again raised at the meeting in the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) the issue of NATO exercises in Georgia. This was reported to journalists by the head of the South Ossetian delegation in the format of the IPRM, Yegor Kochiev.
