Q: Akhsar Muratovich, what are the priorities of the South Ossetian foreign policy currently?
Answers of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSO
“The concept of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation, approved today by Russian President Vladimir Putin, has been updated in the context of the current difficult situation and defines the priority directions, goals and objectives of Russia's international activities.
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.
TSKHINVAL, March 21, 2022, 18:17 — REGNUM The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia made a comment on the request of the ICC Prosecutor to issue warrants for arrests of Mikhail Mindzaev, Hamlet Guchmazov and David Sanakoev. It states:
South Ossetia welcomes the recognition of the sovereignty of the fraternal republics of Donbass. This is an important and responsible decision of the Russian leadership.
The statement of Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus, on the possibility that Minsk recognizes the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia did not gounnoticed in South Ossetia.
The statement of Belarusian President has reasonablegrounds, and it is not only the obvious established legal international situation related to the existence of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, which implies political obligations, including implementation of a coordinated foreign policy.
Recently, the promotion of additional Russian military forces to combat duty on the territory of Belarus has been widely discussed, and especially the statement of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko about the country’s readiness for war on the side of Russia. The situation for IA REGNUM was commented by the Minister of South Ossetia Dmitrii Medoev.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia Dmitrii Medoev spoke in an interview to the Information Agency «Res» about the current situation in Ukraine and possible provocations in South Ossetia.
Question: How could you comment on the events taking place in Kazakhstan?
Answer: We are closely following the development of recent events in Kazakhstan.
On the eve of the next anniversary of the beginning of Georgia's armed aggression against South Ossetia of 2008 Dmitrii Medoev, the South Ossetian Foreign, gave an interview to MK
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia D. N. Medoev gave a comment to the Sputnik South Ossetia correspondent regarding the unrest in Georgia.
Dmitrii Medoev, in particular, noted:
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia D.N. Medoev gave a comment to IA REGNUM regarding the creation of a government commission in Georgia for the development and implementation of the “State strategy for de-occupation and peaceful resolution of conflicts” - a project that, according to its authors, is intended to annul the military-political presence of Russia in the region and would allow Tbilisi to return the lost in 1989 territory.