Archive - 2019

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Republic of Nicaragua Narim Kozaev presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic reports.

The official ceremony took place on April 3 at the House of Nations in Managua. Vice-President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, took part in the ceremony of presenting credentials.

For propaganda purposes, official Tbilisi continues to disseminate false statements of its intent to establish and develop comprehensive relations with Russia. However, in fact, we see a completely opposite attitude. Provocative actions of the NGOs controlled by the Georgian authorities, which contribute to further destabilization of the areas bordering South Ossetia, do not stop.

One of the most active NGOs, which is the mouthpiece of the Georgian government in unbridled anti-Russian and anti-Ossetian hysteria, is the so-called "Anti-occupation movement" Strength in unity. "

Russia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, on the eve of the regular Geneva Discussions that started on April 2 in Switzerland, reaffirmed the relevance of this international format.

The corresponding statements with a small interval sounded by Russian, South Ossetian and Abkhaz diplomats, becoming a kind of response to the recent statement by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili about the need to create a new international format at a higher political level.

President Anatoly Bibilov received the Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for the Affairs of the North Caucasus, Igor Koshin, who arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit. According to the presidential press service and the government, the meeting was also attended by the Chairman of the Government Eric Pukhaev, Head of the Presidential Executive Office Igor Kozaev, Deputy Head of the President of the Russian Federation on Border Cooperation Denis Travin, Ambassador of the Russian Federation Marat Kulakhmetov.

The South Ossetian party expects that its proposals for improving the effectiveness of the Geneva discussions on the preparation of a document on non-use of force will receive a positive impetus at the talks in Geneva, said Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy, the head of the South Ossetian delegation in Geneva, Murat Dzhioev.

The Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia start on Tuesday, April 2, and will be held for two days.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov met with the Vice-President of the Skolkovo Foundation, Alexander Chernov, the press service of the head of state reports.

Anatoly Bibilov expressed hope for the elaboration of issues related to various projects and the participation of South Ossetia in them.

“I hope you will have the opportunity to assess the potential of South Ossetia and to some extent work through the issues related to various projects of Skolkovo.” For my part, I can assure you of all-round support,” said the President.

Deputies on Thursday ratified an Agreementon friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between South Ossetia and the Lugansk People’s Republic.

The draft law was submitted to parliamentarians by Alexander Pliev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and Inter-Parliamentary Activity.

He has noted that the agreement was signed by the President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov and the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik on December 29, 2018 in the framework of the first official visit of the head of the LPR to South Ossetia.

On March 18, multinational NATO-Georgia Exercise 2019 command and staff exercises began in Georgia, in which are taking part about 350 soldiers from 24 NATO member countries and partners, including the United States. The NATO-Georgia Exercise 2019 exercise will be the second multinational exercise in Georgia to be held as part of the country's cooperation package with NATO, adopted at the 2014 Wales summit.

Five drones at the same time crossed the border of South Ossetia from Georgia and flew to the city of Kvaisa, the head of the South Ossetian delegation Yegor Kochiev told reporters after the official part of the meeting under the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM).

The South Ossetian party once again raised at the meeting in the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) the issue of NATO exercises in Georgia. This was reported to journalists by the head of the South Ossetian delegation in the format of the IPRM, Yegor Kochiev.