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South Ossetia party, headed by Murat Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, is participating in the 38th round of the Geneva International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia that is taking place on December 13-14, 2016.

December 13 saw bilateral consultations between South Ossetia party and representatives of international organizations and trilateral consultations between delegations of the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation.

A regular session of the OSCE Council of Ministers took place in Hamburg on December 8-9, 2016. The session saw a group of states-friends of Georgia circulating a statement containing appeals to Russia to call back recognition of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia, appeals for “peaceful solution of the conflict” and reorganizing in Georgia “a full-scale OSCE mission”.

Murat Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosted a meeting with Oleg Botsiev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Republic of Abkhazia, on December 7, 2016.

The Ambassador reported to the Minister about the work conducted by the Embassy, aimed at development of the bilateral cooperation in accordance with the reached agreements.

December 7, 2016, Tskhinval

December 6 saw Murat Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement, hosting a meeting with Marat Kulakhmetov, Counselor of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia.

November 24, 2016 saw the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia publishing another quarterly report “on the Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Regions of Georgia”, covering this time the period from July to September of the current year.

The document differs slightly form previous “reports” and completely corresponds to Georgian logic of deliberately creating negative images of states neighboring to Georgia – the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia.

Murat Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosted a meeting with Dusan Ignjatovic, an independent international exert, who, upon the OSCE invitation, has been participating in search of the missing citizens of South Ossetia, lost as a result of Georgian aggression.

Terms of the expert further steps made in clarifying the destiny of the missing people were discussed during the meeting.

Mauro Murgia, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in Italy, met with Alberto Drudi, the Chair of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Pezarro-Urbino.

Possibilities of commercial and industrial cooperation with South Ossetia as well as other terms of mutual interest were discussed during a meeting.

Mr.Murgia invited the Chair to the Republic of South Ossetia.

November 25, 2016, Tskhinval

Murat Dzhioev, South Ossetia Foreign Minister and the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement, heading South Ossetia delegation at the Geneva International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia, hosted a meeting with the Co-Chairs of the Discussions representing the EU, the OSCE and the UN, who arrived to the Republic on November 22 in anticipation of the coming 38th round of the Discussions.

The agenda of the round scheduled for December 13-14, 2016 was discussed during the meeting.

Pertaining to “Legendy armii” program (Zvezda TV) dated November 15, 2016 dedicated to Unus-Bek Evkurov, Head of Ingushetia

Pertaining to a statement made by Leonid Kalashnikov, Russian State Duma member

The statement of Leonid Kalashnikov, Russian State Duma member, made during an interview to RIA Novosti on November 16, 2016, surprised people in South Ossetia very much. According to Mr.Kalashnikov “…provides Moldova comes to a solution of its territorial conflict in Pridnestrovie, having it solved in a confederation sort, and keeps on developing relations with Russia, it will be an example for solution of conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine”.

Murat Dzhioev, South Ossetia Foreign Minister, hosted a meeting with Nalan Antmen, Head of the ICRC mission in South Ossetia, on November 17.

The activity conducted by the Mission on territory of the Republic in general and direct humanitarian aid to certain population categories in particular were discussed at the meeting. The parties exchanged opinions on productivity of joint efforts aimed at missing citizens’ search as well as on other terms of cooperation.

What is the agenda of the coming round of the Geneva International Discussions scheduled for December 13-14?

The next week we’ll have a meeting with the Co-Chairs of the Discussions, that is regularly organized in anticipation of meetings in Geneva.