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Ambassador of South Ossetia to Nicaragua Narim Kozaev and Deputy Head of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry Arlette Marenko discussed the state and prospects for further development of bilateral cooperation, the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of South Ossetia reports.

The Foreign Ministry noted that the meeting between the Ambassador and the Deputy Minister took place as part of Narim Kozaev's trip to Managua to attend celebrations on the occasion of the victory of the Sandinista revolution.

The anti-tank mines were discovered in Tskhinval during the construction and installation works along Bush Street, the press service of the South Ossetian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports.

"On Monday, the duty unit of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia received a message that anti-tank mines in the amount of 2 pieces were found during the construction and installation works along Bush Street," the report says.

Later, sappers from Ministry of Emergency Situations of South Ossetia found two more anti-tank mines at the construction site.

Pupils and teachers of secondary school No. 2 in Tskhinval continue to weave camouflage nets for fighters from South Ossetia who are in the special military operation zone. They have already sent a batch of nets to the special military operation zone and received a lot of positive feedback from the guys from the front.

Commemorative events dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Georgia's military aggression against the Republic in August 2008 will be held in South Ossetia.

As the Minister of Culture of the Republic Rada Dzagoeva told reporters, on August 7, in the evening, the performance "The Last Witness" will be shown at the State Drama Theater.

Employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia took part in the Forum of young diplomats of the Eurasian countries, held on the sidelines of the Manzherok festival in Gorno-Altaisk.

The event was organized by the Council of Young Diplomats of the Russian Foreign Ministry together with Rossotrudnichestvo, the United Russia party and the government of the Altai Republic, the Republic’s Foreign Ministry reports.

The Embassy of South Ossetia in Russia, on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the entry of peacekeeping forces into the Republic, sent a press release to all diplomatic missions accredited in Moscow, as well as to the Georgian interests section at the Swiss Embassy, the press service of the diplomatic department reports.

The Chambers of Control and Accounts of South Ossetia and Bashkortostan signed an agreement on bilateral cooperation, which provides for interaction and exchange of experience between the two departments.

For the part of South Ossetia, the document was signed by the Deputy Head of the Control and Accounting Chamber Vadim Khubulov, for the part of Bashkortostan - by the head of the Control and Accounting Chamber Konstantin Shagimuratov.

The parties expressed hope for further cooperation, emphasizing that it would benefit both republics.

The leadership of South Ossetia, headed by President Alan Gagloev, Speaker and deputies of the Parliament, as well as members of the public, laid flowers at the "peacekeepers stele" located on Peacekeepers Street in Tskhinval.

The laying ceremony was also attended by Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, ex-president Leonid Tibilov, military personnel, including former peacekeepers.

On Friday, the Republic is celebrating the 31st anniversary of the entry into the Republic of the Joint Peacekeeping Forces in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict.

The attempt of the Georgian participants to move the rally hysteria from the streets of Tbilisi to the Geneva venue was unsuccessful, although the atmosphere of the meeting was negatively affected by the ongoing anti-Russian campaign in Georgia, accompanied by aggressive rhetoric against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is stated in the message of the South Ossetian delegation on the results of the 58th round of the Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia.

A two-day 58th round of discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia has started in Geneva. According to the head of the delegation Konstantin Kochiev, the South Ossetian delegation held meetings with the co-chairs and co-moderators of the working groups,.

“The main issues on the agenda of the Geneva discussions were discussed. A thorough exchange of views took place, during which the South Ossetian delegation reaffirmed its adherence to its principled positions,” Kochiev said.