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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.
We are closely following the events taking place in Georgia over the past few days. It is obvious that the developing serious internal political crisis, into which this country has been driven again by its Western curators and so-called "friends", may become a threat to the stability and security of the entire Transcaucasian region.
On March 9, a telephone conversation was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia Inal Ardzinba
March 6, saw the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Akhsar Dzhioev hosting a meeting with Marat Kulakhmetov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of South Ossetia.