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On April 4-5, 2023, a regular round of the GID on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia, held on the bases of the agreements adopted on August 12, 2008 and September 8, 2008, took place in Geneva. Delegations from the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, the Russian Federation and the United States, as well as representatives of the EU, the UN and the OSCE participated in work of the Discussions. Konstantin Kochiev, State Adviser to the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, headed the South Ossetiandelegation. 

On April 4, the two-day 57th round of the Geneva International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia began in Geneva. During the first day the South Ossetian delegation held meetings with co-chairs and moderators of working groups 1 and 2, where discussed the key items of the agenda of the main day of the Discussions. A thorough exchange of opinion on the necessity to continue the Geneva process and return to regular regime of conducting rounds of the Discussions as an important factor of maintaining stability and security in the region was held. 

On April 3, a meeting of the delegation of the Republic of South Ossetia at the GID with ICRC Operations Coordinator for Europe and Central Asia Angelique Appeyroux and ICRC Head of the Protection Department for Europe and Central Asia Fabien Bourdier was held at the headquarters of the Committee in Geneva.

“The concept of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, approved today by Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been updated in the context of the current difficult situation and defines the priority directions, goals and objectives of Russia's international activities.

On March 31, Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia hosted a meeting with Head of the ICRC Mission in the Republic of South Ossetia Dragoslav Blazevic.

On March 23, in Moscow, the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev held a meeting with Narim Kozaev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to Nicaragua and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

On March 23, a video conference of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva International Discussions with the Co-Chairs of the Discussions, representing the EU, the OSCE and the UN, was held in Tskhinval.  

Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, sent a congratulatory letter to Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, on the occasion of his birthday.

The letter, in particular, reads:

Annually, on March 18, victims of the Ered tragedy – one of the most terrible and inhuman crimes in the recent history of Ossetia, are commemorated in South Ossetia.

On March 18, 1991 Georgian neo-nazies seized an Ural car and disembarked 25 Ossetians, who were driving through the territory, which at that time was controlled by Georgian armed formations. Women and children were released, but 12 men after horrific tortures were buried alive, and the place of burial was leveled with a bulldozer.

On March 16, a meeting of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin was held in Moscow.

On March 14, 2023, Valery Vasilievich Loshchinin, an outstanding Russian diplomat and statesman, retired Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, died at the age of 82.

The South Ossetian-Russian relations have a rich and deep-rooted history. Our nations are united by spiritual and cultural closeness. Alliance with Russia is the historical choice of the Ossetians.