Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia participated in the V Global Forum of Young Diplomats, organized by the Council of Young Diplomats of the Russian Foreign Ministry, on August 27 - 29 in Kazan.
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August 26 saw the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev hosting a meeting with a delegation from the Donetsk People’s Republic, headed by Sergey Peresada, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Donetsk, who arrived in Tskhinval to participate in the celebrations, dedicated to the 14th anniversary of the recognition of the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation.
August 26 is the day of recognition of the state independence of the Republic of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation. The epochal event in the recent history of the Republic, which took place fourteen years ago, was the logical result of the forced longstanding struggle of the people of South Ossetia against permanent aggression by Georgia, victims of which were thousands of defenders and civilians of South Ossetia, while more than a hundred thousand Ossetians became refugees.
August 25 saw the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev hosting a meeting with Alan Pliev, Head of the Official Representation of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the Republic of South Ossetia.
Alan Pliev congratulated Akhsar Dzhioev with the appointment to a high position and wished the Minister success at the new responsible post.
On August 25, a press conference of the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev was held in the press centre of the State Committee for Information and Press.
Congratulatory messages on the occasion of the appointment to the post of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia have been received by Akhsar Dzhioev.
On August 23, Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetian, hosted a meeting with Marat Kulakhmetov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of South Ossetia.
On August 22, Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetian, hosted a meeting with Alan Elbakiev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Abkhazia to the Republic of South Ossetia.
Under the Decree by the President of the Republic of South Ossetia Alan Gagloev, dated August 15, 2022, Akhsar Dzhioev was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia.
Background:
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region. The national-territorial entity of the southern part of Ossetia was formed in Soviet times by a separate Decree dated April 20, 1922. The adoption of this document was inextricably linked to previous events – the bloody struggle of the Ossetian nation against Georgia for the right to a free life and a decent future.
During a telephone conversation with RES IA reporter Dmitrii Medoev, the acting Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia, made a comment on the statement of Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who had called the conduction of the referendum in South Ossetia a Russian provocation.
On May 24, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia hosted a quadrilateral meeting between Foreign Ministers of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Artsakh, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Lugansk People’s Republic – Dmitrii Medoev, David Babayan, Nataliya Nikonorova and Vladislav Deinego.