Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

Today in Moscow will begin the 6th plenary session of the Intergovernmental Committee for Socio-Economic Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia.
The meeting will be opened by a head of the Russian part of the Intergovernmental Committee, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian federation - Presidential Envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District Alexander Khloponin. The South Ossetian delegation is headed by the Chairman of the Government Rostik Khugaev.

A round table discussion on the topic "Eurasian Union - a new stage of integration" has recently been held in the capital of South Ossetia.
The organizer of the event - the South Ossetian branch of the Development Fund "Institute of Eurasian Studies", - invited to the discussion the South Ossetian and Russian experts, the public and political figures of the Republic.
As noted during the roundtable by the Chairman of the Ossetian branch of the Development Fund of the "Institute of Eurasian Studies", Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia Zurab Kokoev, Eurasian Union, by analogy with the European Union, is to become a common economic space without any migration and border barriers.

Criminal proceedings upon the missing people of South Ossetia have started in Georgia.
As reported to media by Deputy Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Khokh Gagloyty after the meeting, held today within the framework of Mechanisms on Prevention and Reaction to Incidents (MPRI) in the Georgian village of Ergneti at the border of South Ossetia, "we reiterated at the meetings if Georgia had brought criminal proceedings upon the missing citizens of South Ossetia, considering that there were enough material to start the investigation. Today, the Georgian party finally informed us that a criminal case is in the process of legal procedure", - said Gagloyty.

The recent parliamentary election in Georgia, which has been dubbed the "Brooms Revolution," has developed a dual power in the neighboring country. The President remained the same, only his powers have been diminished in favor of the Prime Minister: Saakashvili himself proposed this law in the hope that his party would win the election and offer him the position of prime minister with wider powers than the president.

Foreign Policy Aspects

Delegation of South Ossetia took part in the third national forum of heads of the health system institutions. As IA "Res" has been informed at the press service of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of South Ossetia, "members of the South Ossetian delegation,represented by Minister for Health Gregory Kulidzhanov, Presidential State Adviser on Social Affairs Rodion Siukaev and Assistant Minister for Health Akhsar Zassev took part in the round table discussions on the themes ''The Central Regional Hospital Management '', ''The Key Development Issues of the Pediatric Medicine Institutions '' and ''Hospital Management : Practice and Solutions''.

Tomorrow, November 27 a regular meeting of the Mechanisms for Prevention and Reaction to Incidents (MPRI will be held at the Georgian village of Ergneti, which is bordering on South Ossetia.

By the end of November the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will complete the implementation of the projects of water supply system in the villages of South Ossetia, planned for 2012.

South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov has received the representatives of the Russian public corporation "Gazprom" - Director of the Department of Capital Construction and Contract Works of the public corporation "MRK Engineering" Alexander Bart, Head of Strategic Planning Department "Gazprom Neft" Sergey Vakulenko and an engineer of the pipeline project "Dzuarikau-Tskhinval" Nikolay Stupin.
During the meeting the President has noted that the pipeline "Dzuarikau-Tskhinval" is of great importance to South Ossetia.

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia

Twenty-three years ago, November 23, 1989 on the outskirts of Tskhinval was stopped a march of tens of thousands of the Georgian extremists, organized by leaders of the nationalist movements, through complicity of the authorities of Georgia. The march to Tskhinval was aimed at intimidating the Ossetians that would have to be followed by their expulsion from the territory of South Ossetia. That plan of the Georgian nationalists was thwarted, however, those November days were a prologue to the long struggle of the people of South Ossetia for the right to life, liberty, and human dignity.