On 4 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia A. M. Dzhioev and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. V. Lavrov held a meeting in Moscow.
From the South Ossetian side the meeting was attended by the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia A. V. Tskhovrebov and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation Z. N. Gassiev.