Archive - 11/2019

The European Union, UN and OSCE co-chairs of the Geneva international discussions on Transcaucasia are planning to visit Moscow, Tskhinval, Sukhum and Tbilisi next week, Toivo Klaar, the EU special representative for the South Caucasus, told media.

Commenting on the topics of the upcoming meetings, Klaar called one of the main issues the tense situation on the Georgian border with South Ossetia, in particular, in the area of ​​the border villages of Chorchana and Tsnelis, where the Georgian side put up a police post.

Minister of Culture of South Ossetia, Zhanna Zasseeva, will take part in the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, which will be held in the northern capital of Russia from14 - 16 November, the press service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of South Ossetia told IA “Res”.

Minister of Culture of South Ossetia, Zhanna Zasseeva, will take part in the VIII St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, which will be held in the northern capital of Russia from14 - 16 November, the press service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of South Ossetia told IA “Res”.

Photo exhibition "Remember to live", dedicated to the memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in Beslan in September 2004, opened in St. Petersburg.

The exhibition presents more than 50 photographs of Sergei Uzakov and Valeria Saveleva. As Boris Gazalov, the Chairman of North Ossetia in the North-Western Federal district, told "15th Region", a large number of young people were among the visitors of the exhibition.

President Anatoly Bibilov met with the director of the Tskhinval Music College named after Felix Alborov Zhanna Gagieva and a musician Sarmat Kabisov, the press service of the head of state reports. The musicians told the President about their participation in the ItalianBreak International Festival-Competition in the Republic of San Marino, where Sarmat Kabisov had become the 1st degree laureate.

Zhanna Gagieva thanked the President “for all-round support”.

South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev visited the regional Parliament of Berlin, where he held a number of meetings with representatives of parties of the Parliament, the press service of the Foreign Ministry said. The meetings discussed issues of mutual interest.

During the visit, Dmitry Medoev also met with the Chairman of the Union of Serbs of Germany, Mr. Zoran Stanojevic, and members of the Serbian community of Germany, which has more than 100,000 people, on their initiative.

The situation in the village of Tsnelis remains tense due to the illegal Georgian police post on the territory of South Ossetia. South Ossetia sees the solution to this issue only in the removal of the illegal post from the territory of our Republic. This issue is periodically raised at the technical meetings as part of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms, but so far, the parties have not reached a common denominator.

And further raise bids

The Georgian authorities, taking advantage of the fact that they have access to all international platforms, continue to create a completely distorted view of South Ossetia among the international community, said Presidential Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement Murat Dzhioev, commenting on a statement by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Maria Peichinovich-Burich.

"Compassion" in Georgian

A distinctive feature of the seventh technical meeting in the format of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) was that before the dialogue began, representatives of the EU and OSCE observers sent their proposals to the South Ossetian party, proposing a phased plan to resolve the situation in the village of Tsnelis due to a police post illegally exposed by the Georgian side in South Ossetia. This was reported to reporters by the head of the South Ossetian delegation to the IPRM Yegor Kochiev.

Protect the safety of the population

The seventh technical meeting of representatives of South Ossetia and Georgia in the format of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM)has been completed , the parties did not compromise on the situation at the state border on the removal of the illegal Georgian roadblock near the village of Uista (Tsnelis) in Znaur district of South Ossetia, told reporters, the head of the South Ossetian delegation, Yegor Kochiev.

According to him, the parties have not yet reached a common denominator, each of them has remained with its own opinion.