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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.

The border authorities of South Ossetia detained and expelled back a citizen of Georgia who violated the state border, the press service of the State Security Committee reported on Monday.

"On February 26, in the evening, in the vicinity of the village of Orchosan, Leningor district of the RSO, the border authorities of the Republic detained a citizen of Georgia Amiran Mantashashvili, born in 1992, a resident of Tbilisi, who had illegally crossed into the territory of South Ossetiao.

In South Ossetia, extreme surprise was caused by the speech of the leader of the "Essence of Time" movement Sergei Kurginyan, aired on the Russian TV channel "Russia 1" on February 25 on the air of the talk show "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov", which contained incorrect and inadmissible formulations of a dubious nature about South Ossetia with a mention of the public authority - the leadership of the Presidential Executive Office of South Ossetia. This is stated in the commentary of the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic to the news agency "Res".

The number of people infected with the new coronavirus in South Ossetia on the last day of the working week was 13, Anna Gagloeva, Deputy head of the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee, said on Monday.

"On February 26, 167 tests were carried out in the Republic, of which 13 were positive. Thus, the total number of cases of coronavirus in the Republic increased to 3046," Gagloeva said.

In Tskhinval, a protocol was signed on amending the Agreement between the government of the Donetsk People's Republic and the government of the Republic of South Ossetia on the mutual recognition of education. The agreement provides for expanding cooperation in the field of education and science of the two countries.