"These gentlemen have expressed nothing new" Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia commented on the statement of the US State Department
Recently, a certain Levan Mikeladze Foundation held an annual online conference "Georgia and its Neighborhood", where the US First Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Bigan made a statement that Georgia and the United States of America should redouble their efforts so that the Russian Federation would withdraw the decision on recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev, at the request of the "Res" news agency, commented on the statement of the American official, calling it "a broken record."