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.
Today, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia Murat Dzhioev and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are signing an agreement on deployment of diplomatic missions in the Russian Federation and South Ossetia respectively, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.
The Ministries of Finance of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation signed an additional agreement on the procedure on financial assistance to the reconstruction, socio-economic development and support to balanced budget of the Republic of South Ossetia.
On 6 October, the Ministries of Finance South Ossetia and Russia have concluded Supplementary Agreement no. 1 to the Agreement on the procedure for financial assistance to the reconstruction, socio-economic development and support to balanced budget of South Ossetia. For the South Ossetian side, the document was signed by the Prime-Minister Vadim Brovtsev and for the Russian side, Deputy Finance Minister Anton Siluanov signed the agreement.
The authors of the draft-proposals the settlement of humanitarian issues in South Ossetia and Abkhazia do not take into account the fact that these republics are the sovereign states and are not part of Georgia, stated the South Ossetian President’s Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev.
According to him, the draft paper was submitted to the South Ossetian side on October 1, during the visit of Geneva Co-chairs to South Ossetia.
"We received the draft from the Co-Chairs of the second working group in the Geneva Discussions on the settlement of humanitarian issues, but 99% of the paper is politics, and only 1% refers to the humanitarian issues", said Chochiev.
The settlement of refugee return and humanitarian problems is impossible without signing an agreement on non-use of force by Georgia, said the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement to the South Ossetian President Boris Chochiev.
"The settlement of these issues comes after the signing of the non-use of force. Without this paper signewd, the Ossetian refugees can not return to Georgia, because they have no guarantees of security there, ", said Chochiev.
He also noted that the problem of refugees return should not be considered unilaterally, the way the international organizations are trying to do.
