On November 23, South Ossetia celebrates the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the struggle of the South Ossetian people for freedom and the right to live in its land. This is a special date in the history of our Motherland symbolizing unprecedented courage and unity of the nation.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia A.M. Dzhioev sent a congratulatory message to the Director of the Fourth Department of the CIS countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation D.V. Gonchar on the occasion of his anniversary.
Congratulation, in particular, says:
On November 6, 2023, on the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia adjusted to the frontier with Georgia, close to the village of Amdzarin of the Leningor region of the Republic of South Ossetia, during the actions undertaken by a border patrol while detaining violators of the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia, an incident happened as a result of which one Georgian citizen was injured and later died, another was detained.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev sent a congratulatory letter to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov on the occasion of the National Unity Day.
The letter, in particular, reads:
On October 27, the Official Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Republic of Austria, Patrick Poppel, visited the South Ossetian State University named after A. A. Tibilov, where he gave a lecture to students and teachers of the Department of Political Science and Sociology on the topic: “Public diplomacy as an important tool in modern international politics".
On October 27, the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev hosted a meeting with the Official Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Republic of Austria Patrick Poppel.
In his speech at the margins of the 147th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly held in Luanda, Angola under the thesis “Parliamentary action for peace, justice and strong institutions”, Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, touched upon the thesis of so-called occupation, having mentioned in that regards historical belonging of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to Georgia.
On October 20, a meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua to the Republic of South Ossetia Alba Azucena Torres Mejía was held in Moscow.
On October 18, a meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev with the State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Dmitry Mezentsev was held in Moscow.
On October 18, a meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian Federation Bashar Jaafari was held in Moscow.
On October 12, the Israeli Air Force launched strikes on the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic, as a result of which the runways of the international airports of Damascus and Aleppo were damaged.
The GID on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia started on October 15, 2008, after the armed attack of Georgia on South Ossetia and after forcing the aggressor to peace, in accordance with the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreements, dated August 12, 2008 and September 8, 2008. Delegations from South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Russia, Georgia, the USA, as well as representatives of the EU, the UN and the OSCE participate in the Discussions on equal rights.
