Video conference of Dmitriy Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, broadcasted in Tskhinval, Moscow and Sukhum, was organized in the press center of Sputnik South Ossetia in anticipation of the 9th Anniversary of the Recognition of the Independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by Russia on August 25.
Вопрос: August 18 saw Ian Kelly, the US Ambassador to Georgia, visiting Ergneti, a Georgian village adjacent to the border with the Republic of South Ossetia, where he claimed that “occupation will not last, that barbed wire will not stand”. How can you comment on that?
— Mr. Medoev, did you expect your appointment as the Minister of Foreign Affairs or in other words, was there any agreement between you and the President during the presidential campaign?
August 12, 2017 saw a meeting Anatoliy Bibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, and Vyacheslav Bitarov, the Head of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, with the participants of Ethnolager 2017, a summer cultural and educational course, organized in framework of the international project “Trace of the Alans”. Dmitriy Medoev, the South Ossetian Foreign Minister, participated in the meeting, which was organized in the village of Nar.
The leaders of the Republics welcomed the guests.
Commemoration events, dedicated to the 9th anniversary of Georgian military aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia, were organized in Italy on August 8, 2017.
The attendees who came to Piazza Collenuccio in Pesaro observed a minute of silence in tribute to the memory of numerous victims of the Georgian aggression.
Commemoration events, dedicated to the 9th anniversary of Georgian military aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia, are being hold in the Republic on August 7-8.
The tragic events, which happened nine years ago, will remain an open wound in the heart of the Ossetian people.
Large-scale joint military exercises of NATO and partners of the Alliance Noble Partner 2017, which are characterized by an unprecedented increase in the military potential involved, started in Georgia for the third time on July 30, 2017.
About 3 000 military servicemen from Georgia, the USA, the Great Britain, Germany, Turkey, Slovenia, Ukraine and Armenia are participating in the drills, foreign heavy military equipment and aircraft have been brought to the territory of Georgia. The Vice President of the USA participated in the opening ceremony of the drills.
- Could you, please, be more precise about official and working visits of the President? What is their purpose, and what agreements have been concluded?
- The primary role in foreign policy implementation is played by the President. As earlier, further development and strengthening of the strategic partnership with the Russian Federation is the top priority of our foreign policy.
Anatoliy Bibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, met with Cyrill, the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia.
In his welcoming speech the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church expressed confidence that the work of Anatoliy Bibilov at the high post would promote consolidation of the society and wished to discuss religious issues and hear the opinion of the President on the situation in South Ossetia.
On July 24, 2017 Dmitriy Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosted a meeting with Mauro Murgia, the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in Italy, Francesca Matacena, director of the Conservatory of Pesaro, and Rosanna Pezzolesi, secretary of the Conservatory, who had arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit.
Diplomats from the CIS countries, Abkhazia and South Ossetia are participating in the Fourth Forum of Young Diplomats, which takes place on July 20-21 in Moscow. Officers of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry represent the Republic.
The general topic of the Forum is “Information Technologies in Modern Diplomacy”.
Young diplomats from Abkhazia, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldavia, Tadjikistan and Uzbekistan take part in work of the Forum.
Q: Today Presidents of Georgia and Ukraine have visited the state border of the Republic of South Ossetia with Georgia. What are your comments on this fact?
A: It recently has become a bad tradition for Georgian authorities to organize provocative ceremonial excursions to the state border between South Ossetia and Georgia for their guests. Poroshenko was no exception and was shown a great honor – he participated in another border theatrics, claiming that he had arrived to testify “the territorial integrity” of Georgia.
