Today at the Parliament session in Tskhinval the agreements between the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Nicaragua have been ratified. The session was conducted by the Speaker of the Parliament of the RSO Stanislav Kochiev. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSO Murat Dzhioev has also been invited to the session. The South-Ossetian parliamentarians have ratified the bilateral agreements on cooperation with the Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Nicaragua signed in July, 2010. The deputies have also ratified the Agreement between the government of the RSO and the government of Nicaragua about mutual visa-free trips of citizens of the Republic of the RSO and Nicaragua, signed in Managua, the Republic of Nicaragua on July, 20 2010. The Minister for Foreign Affairs of the RSO Murat Dzhioev has informed the parliamentarians on the work done by the Ministry in 2010.
«Many countries express interest in establishing contacts with our Republic in the sphere of culture, tourism, at human level», - the minister has told. As he has said, the work in this area is being conducted constantly through the embassy of the RSO in the Russian Federation, and also through the other foreign establishments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RSO. As Dzhioev has noted, this year the visit to some countries of the Latin America is also being prepared by him. The Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of the RSO Yury Dzitstsoity has suggested the minister to work out the strategy of developing the foreign policy of the Republic of South Ossetia. The deputies have also made offers on opening the translators’ staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The members of the Parliament have also raised a question on working out the strategy on settlement of relations with the neighboring Georgia by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.