Archive - 12/3/2010

The US. Embassy in Russia did not timely issue visas to representatives of the Republic of South Ossetia. As one of the members of the South Ossetian delegation David Sanakoev reported to RES Agency, representatives of South Ossetia should participate in the Georgian-Ossetian dialogue hosted by George Mason University. "The South Ossetian delegation of four members should participate in the dialogue, but unfortunately, two persons did not timely receive visas.

South Ossetia considers the report of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Walter Kaelin as another product of double standards policy, stated the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev. Commenting on the Report voiced by Kaelin at the 13th UN session on human rights, Chochiev noted that the report created an impressions that "Kaelin, who visited South Ossetia in November 2009, spoke with indignation about Georgia authorities when he saw ruined houses and schools, and Kaelin, who voiced his report in Switzerland, are different people" "We fully understand that no one will allow anyone to tell the whole truth about things seen in South Ossetia. But I did not think that he would not dare telling at the session things that he described in his report after his visit here in November 2009", said the Special Representative.

On 9 March 2010, a working session on preparation of an agreement between the Defense Ministries of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation on the status of deployed military bases in South Ossetia was held at the Embassy of South Ossetia in the RF. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation Dmitry Medoev, Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Yury Tanaev, First Deputy Defense Minister Maj.Gen. Ibragim Gassiev, Defense Ministry Chief of Staff Col.