July 18 was held a telephone conversation between the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of South Ossetia Murat Dzhioev and the EU co-chairman of the Geneva international discussions on security in Transcaucasia Philippe Lefort. As IA "Res" has been informed at the office of the RSO Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement, during the conversation Murat Dzhioev and Philippe Lefort exchanged views on the current state of the Geneva talks and discussed issues related to the next round of negotiations.