Государственное информационное агентство "Рес"

Georgia continues to ignore South Ossetia's peace-loving proposals to sign a legally binding agreement on the non-use of force between Tbilisi, Sukhum and Tskhinval.

However, it would be unfair to blame official Tbilisi for this: it is unlikely that it decides anything in its own fate. Especially in the field of foreign policy and especially after the color revolution of 2003, which swept away the remnants of an already purely symbolic sovereignty and brought Georgia under the tight all-round US control.

The delegations of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia, following the results of the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia, issued a joint statement in which they declare the politicization of the refugee problem by Georgia.

On June 29, 2021, the remains of Anatoly Archilovich Khodov, a resident of the village of Khod in Tskhinvali district of the Republic of South Ossetia, who had been listed missing since 2009, were handed over to his family for burial. Inal Tasoev, Presidential Commissioner of South Ossetia for human rights, reported to the IA "Res".

Representatives of South Ossetia will take part in the work of the International Youth Forum of Russian Compatriots Living Abroad for the first time, Valentina Gatikoeva, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee on Youth Policy and Sports of the Republic, told the IA" Res".

She has noted that the event will be held from July 29 to August 6 in Moscow, Samara and Volgograd regions.

The South Ossetian party intends to look for ways to prepare a document on the non-use of force at the talks in Geneva, said Presidential Envoy, head of the South Ossetian delegation in Geneva, Murat Dzhioev.

The Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia will start on June 29-30 and will last for two days.

South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee reported on new data on coronavirus disease recorded over the weekend.

As reported to the IA "Res" on Monday, by the head of. the South Ossetian Consumer Supervision Committee Marina Kochieva, according to the results of the tests carried out on Friday evening, from 60 samples, 13 showed a positive result.

"To date, 68 people remain under the supervision of doctors," Kochieva said.

Researcher of the Department of Economics of the South Ossetian State University Vyacheslav Dzhabiev took part in the VI International Symposium on Regional Economics "Interterritorial Inequality: Problem or Driver of Development", which was held from 23 to 25 June in Yekaterinburg at the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

As reported by Dzhabiev to the IA "Res", this year the institute celebrates the 50th anniversary of its foundation, the symposium was included in the program of anniversary events.

The joining of Crimea to Russia, as well as the recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by the Russian Federation, was dictated by history, Sergei Tsekov, a representative from the legislative body of state power of the Republic of Crimea, said at the meeting of the RSO parliamentary commission on cooperation with the Federation Council of Russia.

Chairman of the Government of South Ossetia Gennady Bekoev and Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Anton Kotyakov in Moscow signed an intergovernmental agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia on the procedure and conditions for co-financing at the expense of the Russian Federation to increase the level of remuneration of employees of government bodies of the Republic of South Ossetia.

The next meeting of the South Ossetian parliamentary commission on cooperation with the Federation Council of Russia will take place in the fall. This was announced at the meeting of the commission in Tskhinval on Friday by a representative from the legislative (representative) body of state power of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Tsekov.