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The reports of Ossetian scholars, concerning historical ties and cultural parallels between Ossetia-Alania and Iran aroused particular interest of the participants of the international conference held in Tehran.

According to the press service of the North Ossetian State University, the work of the international conference organized at the Allama Tabatabai University was held in two main thematic areas - cultural ties and diplomatic relations between Iran and Russia.

The issues of socio-economic cooperation between South Ossetia and Russia have been discussed at the meeting in Tskhinval by President Anatoly Bibilov and Deputy Minister for North Caucasus Affairs Igor Koshin, who has arrived in South Ossetia on a working visit.

According to the press service of the head of state, Prime Minister Erik Pukhaev, head of the Presidential Executive Office Igor Kozaev, heads of the Republican ministries have also taken part in the meeting.

Elections in neighboring Georgia are internal affair of the Georgian state; this has nothing to do with South Ossetia, said Dmitry Medoev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia, answering journalists' questions about how he assesses the results of the first round of presidential elections in the neighboring republic.

The South Ossetian Parliament ratified the Treaty of friendship and cooperation with Syria at today's session.

According to the head of the parliamentary committee on foreign policy and inter-parliamentary relations, Igor Kochiev, the document is presented in two copies - Ossetian and Arabic.

The Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement, Murat Dzhioev, and the head of the South Ossetian office of the International Committee of the Red Cross Ashot Astabatsyan at a meeting in Tskhinval agreed to activate the work of the tripartite mechanism to search for the missing persons.

According to the office of the Plenipotentiary, the next meeting of the tripartite mechanism is scheduled for mid-November.

Presidium of the Congress of Self-Determination of Peoples,held in Verona with the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSO Dmitry Medoev, adopted an appeal in support of South Ossetia.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, the appeal was made following the speech of Medoev.

The revanchist encroachments of Georgia demand decisive actions from the Foreign Intelligence Service of South Ossetia, said President Anatoly Bibilov, speaking at a solemn meeting on the 15th anniversary of the founding of the FIS of the RSO.

Congratulating the intelligence officers on a landmark date, Bibilov has noted that the formation of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Republic took place at a difficult time, when Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili began active preparations for resolving conflicts with South Ossetia and Abkhazia by force.

The activities of the "Research Center of Public Health, named after R. Lugar " in Georgia, in the immediate vicinity of the borders of South Ossetia, is a danger to both individuals and the state as a whole, said at a press conference in Tskhinval DeputyDefense Minister of the RSO, Colonel Vadim Siukaev.

According to him, it is the bio laboratory in Georgia that causes particular concern in Russia and, accordingly, in South Ossetia.

Russia today is a guide to the outside world for South Ossetia and Abkhazia, said South Ossetian expert Alan Dzhussoev in an interview with the “Res“news agency.

According to him, the recognition of the independence of Tskhinval and Sukhum by Moscow radically changed the situation in the South Caucasus.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, Dmitry Medoev, at the invitation of the political movement Stato Veneto, took part in the International Days of Peoples Self-Determination in Verona, where he made a presentation.