On August 31, a delegation from the Republic of South Ossetia, which included Minister of Foreign Affairs A.M. Dzhioev, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Relations Z.N. Driaev, and Head of the Department for cooperation with Foreign Institutions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs A.G. Sanakoev, participated in a solemn farewell ceremony of the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Republic of Abkhazia Oleg Botsiev.
To bid farewell to Oleg Botsiev and pay their last respects, attendees included the President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Russia to Abkhazia Mikhail Shurgalin, Vice President of Abkhazia Beslan Bigvava, Prime Minister of Abkhazia Vladimir Delba, Head of the Presidential Administration of Abkhazia Beslan Esba, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia Odysseus Bigvava and staff members of the Ministry, as well as Government officials, the Chairman of the Union of Volunteers of South Ossetia Morris Sanakoev, the Ossetian diaspora from Sochi, representatives of the public, friends, and colleagues.
On behalf of President Alan Gagloev, the South Ossetian delegation expressed their heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Oleg Botsiev.
August 31, 2025