South Ossetian authorities have invited Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner to visit the Republic after the negative incident in Tbilisi, press Secretary of the head of the South Ossetian President Dina Gassieva said on Thursday.
South Ossetia and Crimea discussed issues of economic cooperation development via video link.
On March 3, a border guard in the vicinity of the Khelchua settlement in Tskhinval district of South Ossetia detained a citizen of Georgia Ramaz Begeluri, born in 1984, a resident of the village. of Gugutiantkari, Gori municipality.
As reported by the South Ossetian Security Committee, “on March 31, 2021 R. G. Begeluri was returned guilty by the Tskhinval District Court, of committing a crime under Art. 322 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Illegal crossing of the State Border" and sentenced to one year of imprisonment conditionally.
At the last round of Geneva discussions, the South Ossetian delegation rejected accusations against South Ossetia of human rights violations, in particular, accusations that residents of the Georgian nationality do not have the right to study in their native language,” Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy Murat Dzhioev said at the press conference in Tskhinval.
“This information is absolutely false, and we have noted that there are schools in South Ossetia where the education is in the Georgian language,” he explained.
In middle XVIII Ossetia (Alania) was an independent country - a confederation of self-governed states.
There existed two kingdoms on territory of current Georgia – the Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti and the Kingdom of Imereti, and three princedoms – Guria, Mingrelia and Svanetia. At different extents they depended of Turkey and Iran.
1774 - Voluntary entrance of the united Ossetia into the Russian State;
1782 - Erekle II, the king of Kartli-Kakheti, asked the Russian Empress Catherine II to accept his kingdom under the protection of the Russian Empire;
Representatives of the South Ossetian government, headed by Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Economic Development Dzambolat Tadtaev, held talks with representatives of the government of the Sverdlovsk Region of the Russian Federation.
At the 52nd round of the Geneva discussions, an agreement was reached to work out individual statements by the leaders of states (South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia) that these countries will not adhere to the use of force,” said Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.
The issue of clarifying the fate of the residents of South Ossetia, listed to be missing since 2008, is important and relevant, and is raised at every round of the Geneva discussions, said the Presidential Envoy Murat Dzhioev.
According to Dzhioev, the 52nd round of the Geneva discussions was no exception, the South Ossetian party once again reminded the participants of the talks about the three reports of the Serbian independent expert Dusan Ignjatovic, who had been invited by the OSCE.
Regular NATO exercises in Georgia and the supply of weapons to this country by its Western allies are a direct threat against the background of the unwillingness of the Georgian authorities to abandon revanchist ideas and the unwillingness to raise the issue of a document on the non-use of force at the Geneva talks, said the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva talks. Murat Dzhioev.
“That is, they actually refuse to work jointly on this legally binding document,” he stressed at the briefing at the State Committee for Information and Press.
South Ossetia does not expect any help from Georgia, and does not even want it,” said Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev at the press conference in Tskhinval.
Murat Dzhioev reacted to the proposal of the Georgian authorities to vaccinate residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia against coronavirus.
"At the Geneva discussions, the issue of vaccination was not raised, although the representative of Georgia mentioned it in one phrase," the Plenipotentiary said.
