Archive - 18/3/2008

to the statements of the President of Georgia M. Saakashvili regarding the peaceful initiatives suggested by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia E. Kokoity

On 28 January 2008 the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity sent in to the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili a letter with the proposals of the meeting of conflict parties on high level in the existing negotiation framework with the participation of OSCE Chairman in Office. For the effective result of the meeting was suggested to sign the commitments on non application of force in Georgian-Ossetian conflict settlement. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia also directed an appropriate letter to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia where it was proposed to start consultations on the practical realization of the meeting.

Speech at the VI congress of the Ossetian people

The congress of today – the sixth one, according to modern numbering, and under an absolute count – the seventeenth congress of the Ossetian people, has gathered for the first time in Tskhinval. By a strange concurrence of circumstances – it gathered the day before the seventeenth anniversary of the Republic of South Ossetia. Let this teenager number deceive nobody. All the same we’re having an anniversary this year – ninety years have passed since the first national congress had been held. Ninety years long Ossetia’s civil institutions have been struggling with the lack of state unity.