Archive - 15/10/2010

The Agreement on trade, economic, scientific, technical and cultural cooperation between the Republic of South Ossetia and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast of the Russian Federation was signed today in Tskhinval by the President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity and the Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Valery Shantsev.
"After the Protocol on intentions was signed during the visit to Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, today we start implementing a full-scale agreement that will facilitate further development of our relationships. We attach great importance to the contacts with the regions of Russia ", Kokoity said at the signing ceremony.

South Ossetia called on the international community to avoid the politicization of humanitarian issues in the South Caucasus and to follow the example of the Russian Federation and take part in the recovery after the devastating consequences of the Georgian aggression of August 2008, the Head of the South Ossetian delegation to the international discussions on security in the Caucasus, the South Ossetian President's Plenipotentiary Boris Chochiev reports by telephone from Geneva.

As you know, issues related to the dignified and safe return and resettlement of refugees as a humanitarian component of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict settlement process are the subject matter of discussions in the Second Working Group of the Geneva international discussions.
These same issues repeatedly were addressed at the UN General Assembly, which adopted three resolutions without taking into account the opinion of the parties concerned.
It should be noted that, despite the efforts, no real results in solving the problems of refugees have been achieved.