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The issue of clarifying the fate of South Ossetian citizens, who are listed to be missing since 2008, is important and relevant, and is raised at every round of the Geneva discussions, - said Presidential Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

The Plenipotentiary said that within the framework of the visit to South Ossetia of the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions, the diplomats had met with the relatives of the missing citizens of South Ossetia.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov on the air of the State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company "Ir" commented on the statement of the leader of the "Essence of Time" movement Sergei Kurginyan regarding the fact that "the CIA is fooling around" in the Republic.

The South Ossetian Kosta Khetagurov State Drama Theater, on the invitation of the A. Yablochkin Central House of Actor. will hold "Days of the Ossetian Theater on Arbat" in Moscow, the artistic director of the South Ossetian State Drama Theater Tamerlan Dzudtsov told IA" Res"

The number of new cases of coronavirus infection in South Ossetia has increased by 10 in a day. In total, 3,060 infected people have been identified in the Republic since the beginning of the pandemic, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy Head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, said on Wednesday.

A day earlier, 4 infected were identified. According to the Committee, 88 tests were conducted the day before.

During the day, 413 people were removed from the register, in total, 2577, who were under the supervision of doctors, recovered. 483 people remain under observation.

The State Security Committee of South Ossetia informs about the transfer of the Georgian citizen Malkhaz Doluashvili to the Georgian side without penalties.

"On February 27, in the vicinity of the Grom settlement of the Tskhinval district, for violating the regime of the state border of South Ossetia, a border guard detachment detained a citizen of Georgia Doluashvili Malkhaz Vakhtangovich, born in 1960, a resident of the village of Zerti, Gori municipality.

The next meeting within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) will be held on Friday, March 5, said Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

The Georgian authorities continue to create completely false ideas about South Ossetia among the international community, - said the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev.

The South Ossetian party, according to him, at the meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions, drew the attention of diplomats to the fact that recently there were several visits of distinguished guests, who were brought to the border with South Ossetia in the Razdakhan region instead of theaters and showed them South Ossetia through binoculars.

At the next round of the Geneva discussions, the South Ossetian party will again raise the issue of the non-use of force and will seek important steps in this direction,” said Presidential Envoy, head of the South Ossetian delegation at the discussions, Murat Dzhioev.

According to him, the signing of a legally binding document on the non-use of force between South Ossetia and Georgia, Abkhazia and Georgia is remaining important, but the non-constructive position of the Georgian delegation hinders progress in this direction.

The South Ossetian party at the meeting with the co-chairs of the Geneva Discussions stated that the solution of security problems should begin with work to ensure the security of border areas - from the Tsnelis region, where at the end of August 2019 the Georgian side had illegally set up a police post on the territory of South Ossetia. This was announced by the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev at the briefing following the visit of foreign diplomats.

South Ossetia attaches great importance to the Geneva discussions in in ensuring the security and stability of the people of the Republic, and links lasting peace and security in the region as a whole with the Geneva process,” said Murat Dzhioev, the Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement, at the meeting with diplomats.