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President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov met with Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, the presidential press service reports.

The head of state congratulated the Ambassador on the 11th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation, and also addressed words of sincere gratitude to the leadership of Russia for their careful attitude to South Ossetia.

The State Duma is counting on cooperation with Georgia in considering the appeal of the South Ossetian Parliament on the genocide of Ossetians by Tbilisi, said the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin.

"We hope that Georgia, for its part, will help and build communications in considering this issue. The accusations are very serious, they should certainly be based on reasoning, objective events, we will study all this," Volodin told Russian journalists on Monday.

The issue of opening Syrian embassies in Tskhinval is on the agenda in Damascus, Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev said at a press conference in Tskhinval.

Syria recognized South Ossetia on May 29, 2018. Immediately after the recognition of South Ossetia by Syria, President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov paid a visit to the SAR, documents were signed that laid the foundation for bilateral relations, and this process is ongoing.

The Foreign Minister has remined that the other day the South Ossetian delegation has returned from Damascus, where it took part in a serious event.

Ambassador of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation Znaur Gassiev took part in the events dedicated to the beginning of the blockade of Leningrad.

September 8, 1941 the city was subjected to the first massive bombing, on the same day it was taken into the ring.

According to the Embassy press service, on behalf of the people of South Ossetia, as part of the mourning ceremony, Znaur Gassiev laid a wreath at the Piskaryovski Memorial Cemetery at the Mother -Motherland Monument.

Last week, South Ossetia, as well as around the world, celebrated the International Day of the Missing. Over the entire period of permanent aggression of Georgia in South Ossetia, 137 people are listed to be missing. Diplomats, public organizations, the Ombudsman, and members of the mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross are engaged in their search.

Unfortunately, people disappear not only during the war. A resident of Tskhinval Vladimir Pukhaev applied to the editorial office of the “Res” agency. Six years ago, his son, Nikolai, born in 1969, went missing.

It is proposed to cancel the temporary periodic customs declaration when exporting oil products from Russia to South Ossetia. The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation proposed to ratify the protocol on amendments to the agreement between the governments of Russia and South Ossetia on the regime of trade in goods, according to the official website of the “Parliamentary newspaper”.

The State Security Committee of the Republic of South Ossetia informs that currently the situation on the section of the South Ossetian-Georgian state border in the area of ​​the settlement of Vista is stable.

"The border guards of the State Security Committee are engaged in the equipment of the state border of the Republic. The Border Service personnel are provided with everything necessary," the KGB said.

The Parliament of South Ossetia will hold hearings on the work of the commission on delimitation and demarcation of the border of the Republic with Georgia.

At a session on Friday, deputies discussed the situation in the border areas of South Ossetia, in particular, the putting up of the Georgian roadblock in the village of Uista (Tsnelis) in The Parliament of South Ossetia will hold hearings on the work of the commission on delimitation and demarcation of the border of the Republic with Georgia.

The biggest result of the Geneva discussions is the fact of their conducti g, since it is already a factor in peace and stability, said South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev in an interview with the Turkish “Cumhuriyet”.

According to him, the Geneva discussions, which will be 11 years old in October 2019, are designed to help ensure peace and security in the Caucasus.

The South Ossetian party intends to defuse the current situation through diplomatic methods, the dialogue within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) will continue, said Murat Dzhioev, Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement at the end of the third technical meeting in the border village of Ergneti.

According to Dzhioev, one issue was discussed at the meeting - the situation in the area of ​​the village of Uista (Tsnelis), where the Georgian security forces had put up a police post.