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The OSCE, the UN and the EU co-chairs of the Geneva Discussions, who arrived in South Ossetia on Tuesday, have visited the settlement of Uista (Tsnelis) in Znaur district of the Republic.

At the briefing, Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev has told reporters that the members of the delegation met with the local population, which expressed concern about the presence of the Georgian post near the village.

The EU, OSCE and UN co-chairs of the Geneva Discussions met on Tuesday in Tskhinval with teachers and students of the English Department of the South Ossetian State University.

The head of the English language department, Mira Tskhovrebova, expressed gratitude to the co-chairs for the desire to communicate with the students studying English.

The main task of the Geneva discussions is to develop a document on the non-use of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia, said at the meeting Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions who had arrived in Tskhinval.

Acting Minister of Internal Affairs Merab Pukhaev, Deputy Chief of the Public Security Police Gennady Laliev, Head of the Public Order Protection Department Mair Gagloev and the Vadim Gazzaev OMON officers, led by OMON commander Igor Pliev, laid wreaths and flowers at the obelisk to the to the riot policemen, perished while repelling the Georgian aggression in June 1992 on the territory of the fuel and energy complex.

The number of detected cases of coronavirus in South Ossetia has increase by 9 over the weekend, the head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee Marina Kochieva said on Monday.

"In the PCR laboratory, 42 tests have been carried out. 9 cases of COVID-19 infection have been detected. In total, during the epidemic, the coronavirus was confirmed in 3355 citizens, of which 3332 recovered," the chief sanitary doctor said.

23 people are being treated under medical supervision in inpatient and outpatient conditions.

The football team of the South Ossetian Embassy in Russia took second place at the 20th anniversary Cup of the MGIMO Rector of the Russian Foreign Ministry in mini-football on grass held in Moscow. The South Ossetian Embassy has found itself on the podium, beating dozens of diplomatic missions and losing only to the Snegiri team, the Embassy's press service reports.

As part of the competition, the South Ossetian team played the first game with the team of Montenegro, finishing the game with a victorious score of 1: 0.

Children of Beslan" is now the name of a municipal park in the city of Rovereto, located in the northern Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige.

On Thursday, researcher of the Department of Economics, of the Z.N. Vaneev South-Ossetian Research Institute Vyacheslav Dzhabiev took part in two international theoretical and practical conferences, which were held in Russia, in the city of Yekaterinburg and in the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic. At both conferences, which were held online, he made scientific reports.

President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov discussed the issue of reconstruction of the building of the synagogue in Tskhinval with the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, the press service of the head of state reported. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the XXIV St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

The President stressed the need to restore the historical part of the capital of South Ossetia, destroyed during the Georgian aggression.

At the meeting with the Ambassador of Syria to the Russian Federation Riyad Haddad on the sidelines of the SPIEF, President of South Ossetia Anatoly addressed sincere congratulations to President Bashar al-Assad in connection with his convincing victory in the elections, and to the people of Syria a peaceful sky.

“We regard this victory as a triumph of justice and a political victory of the people of the Republic of Syria. I would like to emphasize once again that I accept this victory of the people of Syria as a victory of the people of Ossetia,” Anatoly Bibilov said.