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The Russian delegation will insist on the rejection of two draft resolutions on Crimea and the observance of human rights in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which will be proposed during the 28th session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. This was reported to journalists on Thursday by the head of the delegation, the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Peter Tolstoy.

“Our delegation is all in the assembly, we will work including on the agenda that our opponents are proposing,” he said. “We will propose removing two resolutions: on the Crimea and on South Ossetia.”

Report of the South Ossetian delegation to the media on the outcome of the 48th round of the Geneva Security Discussions in Transcaucasia

On July 2-3, 20197, a regular round of international discussions on security in Transcaucasia took place in Geneva. The delegations of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, the Russian Federation, the USA, as well as representatives of the EU, the UN and the OSCE took part in it. The South Ossetian delegation was headed by the Presidential Plenipotentiary for Post-Conflict Settlement, Murat Dzhioev.

South Ossetia and Abkhazia insist on their right to participate in the discussion of the problem of refugees in the UN, according to a joint statement of the republics at the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia.

President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, sent a telegram of condolences to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in connection with the death of submariners in the Barents Sea, the press service of the head of state reports.

"With a feeling of deep sorrow, I took the news of the terrible tragedy on the nuclear submarine AS-12 in the Barents Sea, which killed 14 officers of the Northern Fleet.

The events of June 20-21 in Tbilisi complicated the course of the Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia, making them more nervous, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Wednesday after another round of discussions.

Russia considers theses about the accelerated admission of Georgia to NATO dangerous, said Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on Wednesday after another round of Geneva discussions on Transcaucasia.

"A separate topic we, together with our partners from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, highlighted the themes of the growing activity of the US and NATO in the South Caucasus region; numerous, rather large-scale multinational exercises of this military-political bloc," said Karasin.

Fourteen submariners of the Navy died in a fire at a deep-sea research facility.

Foreign Minister of South Ossetia Dmitry Medoev sent a note of condolences to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov in connection with the tragedy in the Barents Sea.

The leaders of the international social movement "Ossetes Higher Council" - the Chairman Ruslan Kuchiev and his Deputy Vyacheslav Dzagoev - are in South Ossetia.

On July 3, they met with President of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov. The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the South Ossetian Council "High Ossetian Council" Robert Gagloyty.

The first Deputy head of the administration of the President of South Ossetia, Alan Dzhussoev, in an interview with the Res news agency, gave an assessment of the anti-Russian campaign in the Georgian media and spoke in general about his vision of the situation in this country.

First of all, how do you assess the very fact of such riots and the synchronous anti-Russian campaign in the Georgian media?

South Ossetia’s Parliament Speaker Alan Tadtaev at the II International Forum “Development. Of Parliamentarism” spoke at the round table with the report “International humanitarian law and humanitarian cooperation: the role of parliaments and inter-parliamentary institutions”.

According to the press service of the legislative body, the Speaker outlined the importance of the existence of a universal concept of intergovernmental cooperation in the humanitarian field, in particular, in the field of protecting life and dignity in situations of crisis and armed conflict.