Archive - 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.

Today, 14 October, the 13th round of the Discussions on Security in the Caucasus are starting in Geneva.
The Delegation of South Ossetia intends to once again raise before the participants the issues of security and the missing persons.

The construction of 14 wooden houses for socially vulnerable (low-income) families was completed in Znaur district of South Ossetia, reported the Head of District Administration Zaur Tskhovrebov.

South Ossetia proposes the international community, humanitarian organizations to build up settlements for 100,000 Ossetian refugees from Georgia, said the South Ossetian President's Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev.

Potable water reservoir are under rehabilitation in Dzau district of South Ossetia. The reservoir was destroyed by the 1991 earthquake, reported the Head of district administration Pavell Kumaritov.

A meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Murat Dzhioev and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov took place in Moscow, reports the Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.
"The meeting held in a friendly and constructive atmosphere focused on issues of bilateral cooperation and the problems related to the next round of Geneva Discussions", reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.

Today, October 11, 2010, the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of South Ossetia signed an agreement on the deployment of diplomatic missions of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation.

A speech by the expert of the Regional Public Organization "Vozrozhdenie» (Renaissance) Oleg Kuduhov at the working session of the OSCE Review Conference in Warsaw:

Over two decades of independence of South Ossetia, two referenda, three presidential campaigns, and five parliamentary elections were conducted there. Whenever a change of power in the Republic took place, it was done through free will of its people in democratic elections, and not as a result of coups or color revolutions as some of our neighbors did.