On May 25, parliamentary and regional elections were held in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. According to the results, released by the National Electoral Council, the Great Patriotic Pole coalition, which includes the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, won the absolutely majority – 23 out of 24state governor positions in the National Assembly and the majority in regional councils with a 42.6% turnout.
On 26 May, a friendly mini-football match took place between the teams of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia, organized by the Council of Young Diplomats under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia.
On May 20, 1992, a convoy of peaceful Ossetian citizens who were trying to escape from the besieged Tskhinval, was despicably and inhumanly shot down at point-blank range from an ambush by armed Georgian militants on the Zar “road of life”.
On May 19, in Moscow, a meeting was held between the State Councilor of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Konstantin Kochiev, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Galuzin and Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia Odyssey Bigvava.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia A. M. Dzhioev extended a congratulatory letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the establishment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia.
The letter, in particular, reads:
On 15 May the first intellectual game “Brain Ring” organized by the Council of Young Diplomats under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia took place in the building of the Republican Library named after Anacharsis. The event was dedicated to the Day of the Ossetian Language and Literature.
On 14 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia A.M. Dzhioev took part in a solemn meeting dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the birth of Vladislav Ardzinba, an outstanding statesman and political figure, the first President of Abkhazia. The event was organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Republic of South Ossetia.
On 14 May the Minister of Foreign Affairs of theRepublic of South Ossetia A.M. Dzhioev attended the presentation of the books of the first President of the Republic of South Ossetia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Ludwig Chibirov “Issues of ethnogenesis and history of Ossetians” and “Names. Book Two”, the event was held at the South OssetianState University named after A.A. Tibilov.
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation A. M. Dzhioev and S. V. Lavrov have exchanged congratulatory messages on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
A. M. Dzhioev in his message, in particular, noted:
On 8 May in Tskhinval, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, a solemn ceremony was held to lay the Garland of Glory and Remembrance at the obelisk to the fallen during the Great Patriotic War on the Walk of Fame near the Eternal Flame.
On 5 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia A.M. Dzhioev took part in a solemn ceremony - presentation of a series of commemorative coins dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the heroes of the Soviet Union from South Ossetia.
We have familiarised ourselves with the latest consolidated report by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on the ‘Conflict in Georgia’, which repeats time after time unfounded allegations about the so-called occupation of Georgia and the dire human rights and security situation in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and contains the traditional set of ‘instructions’ on the withdrawal of Russian troops, the immediate admission of international human rights defenders and so on.
