Archive - 7/9/2021

On Wednesday Presidential Plenipotentiary of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev held a video conference with the OSCE co-chair at the Geneva International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia, Annika Söder.

As reported by the press service of the plenipotentiary mission, ​​during the conversation they discussed issues related to the preparation for the next round of Geneva discussions.

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia has informed about the absence of positive trends in the fight against the spread of coronavirus in Georgia.

"The analysis of the incoming information indicates not only the extremely low intensity of the immunization process of the Georgian population, but also the regular increase in the number of deaths, as well as the provision by the Georgian authorities of distorted information about the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the country," the KGB said in a statement released on Tuesday.

The second international online conference for families of the missing persons is being held on September 6-7 in the conference hall of the Iryston hotel in the capital of South Ossetia. The event was organized by the Mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

According to the press service of the ICRC, ten relatives of the people who went missing in the conflicts of the 1990s and 2008 are taking part in the conference.

American citizen Jackson Paul Kramer, detained in South Ossetia for violating the state border, was expelled from the Republic. The American traveler on Monday told reporters at the briefing that he would return to the Republic to learn as much as possible about the Ossetians, culture and traditions. "If I were offered to be the representative of South Ossetia in America, I would tell only good things about South Ossetia," he said.