We have paid attention to the words of Salome Zourabichvili, the President of Georgia, who stated in her interview to Bloomberg that Georgian problems connected with the ongoing claims for the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia should be should in conjunction with future peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
The Co-Chairs of the GID on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia have notified the South Ossetian party about their decision to postpone the coming 57th round of the Discussion that had been scheduled for February until April. Against the existing practice, the decision was undertaken by the Co-Chairs unilaterally, without consultations with the participants.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South sent a congratulatory letter to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Nauru on the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Nauru.
The letter, in particular, reads:
On January 27, Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, chaired a Ministerial Board meeting, where key results of the activity conducted by the Ministry in 2022 were highlighted, work plan for 2023 was developed and range of other important issues were discussed.
Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, send a congratulatory letter to Sergey Ghazaryan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh, on the occasion of his appointment as the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Artsakh.
The letter, in particular, reads:
On January 16, Alan Gagloev, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, met with Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, and Znaur Gassiev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation.
Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia sent a congratulatory letter to Yvan Gil Pinto, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, on the occasion of his appointment as the Foreign Minister.
In 2022, in accordance with the tasks designated by the leadership of the state and in line with the legislation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs continued its work to defend and promote the national interests of South Ossetia, to strengthen and develop the mutually beneficial cooperation with the states with which South Ossetia had established diplomatic relations, as well as to expand international contacts.
On December 26, 2022, under the Decree by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev, Andrey Tskhovrebov, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia was conferred a diplomatic rank Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
On December 11-24, 2022 employees of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry attended professional development courses in the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA of Russia.
The International Criminal Court has completed the investigation of war crimes, committed during the full-scale military aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia in August 2008 and does not intend to commit any further investigations.
On December 18, in Rome, in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy, a protest action against the decision of the EU Council on non-recognition of Russian passports issued, among others, in territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, was organized by Mauro Murgia, Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in Italy.
