Press releases of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the RSO

I framework of the IV Yalta International Economic Forum Anatolii Bibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, met with the official delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic, headed by Samer Al-Khalil, the Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, on April 19.

Dmitrii Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, Gennadii Kokoev, the Minister of Economic Development, and Znaur Gassiev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia to the Russian Federation, participated in the meeting.

April 19 saw Anatolii Bibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, and members of the South Ossetian delegation participating in solemn opening ceremony of the IV Yalta International Economic Forum.

In his welcoming speech Anatolii Bibilov told participants and guests of the Forum about the perspectives, which would extension of contacts with the Republic of Crimea and the Russian Federation give to the states - participants of the Forum.

April 18 saw Anatolii Bibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, leaving for the Republic of Crimea, where he will upon an invitation from Sergey Aksenov, the Head of the Republic of Crimea, participate in the IV Yalta International Economic Forum on April 19-21.

We in the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia have heard with anxiety and bewilderment the news about the barbarous air strike by the USA, the Great Britain and France on the territory of a sovereign state – the Syrian Arab Republic.

This unwarranted military action, which looks like a classic military adventure, will without any doubt damage the fragile peace that has established after the many-years-long civil war in Syria.

Protocol to the Agreement on Cooperation on Persian leopard recruitment, conservation and monitoring in the Republic of South Ossetia has been signed with the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia on April 13, 2018 in Tskhinval.

A meeting of the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitrii Medoev with Vladimir Koshelev, a merited polar explorer of the USSR, Assistant to Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma, and Victor Bunin, a merited citizen of Tskhinval, took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia on April 2, 2018.

Почетный полярник СССР В.С. Кошелев по поручению Председателя ЦК КПРФ Г.А Зюганова вручил Министру иностранных дел Республики Южная Осетия Д.Н. Медоеву юбилейную медаль «100 лет Октябрьской Революции».

Pertaining to the results of the 43rd round of the Geneva International Discussions

March 27-28, 2018 saw a regular round of the Geneva International Discussions on Security and Stability in Transcaucasia. A delegation from the Republic of South Ossetia, headed by Murat Dzhioev, the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement, delegations from the Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, the Russian Federation and the USA as well as representatives of the EU, the UN and the OSCE took part in negotiations.

On March 28 Dmitrii Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, visited the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Ossetia and left a record in the Book of condolences in honor of the victims of Kemerovo shopping mall fire.

Tskhinval, March 28, 2018

On March 26 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Dmitrii Medoev hosted a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Republic of South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov.

During the meeting Dmitrii Medoev expressed his deep condolences over the loss of lives in Kemerovo shopping mall fire, expressed words of encouragement and sympathy to the injured and wished them a speedy recovery.

The Official Representative of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol Valeriy Savlaev and his wife and Ossetian artists from Moscow Vladimir Gobozov and Georgiy Gobozov visited the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry on March 26.

Opening ceremony of a memorial plaque to Znaur Gassiev, installed on the house where the political patriarch of South Ossetia lived, took place on March 26.

In framework of a working visit to Moscow on March 19-22, Dmitrii Medoev, the South Ossetian Foreign Minister, held a number of important meetings with representatives of government authorities of the Russian Federation in Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs inclusive.