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Pertaining to the procedures of obtaining permission to enter the Republic of South Ossetia
South Ossetia citizens have the right to apply to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue an admission to the Republic for foreign visitors. A copy of passport of a citizen of the Republic, data on the invited persons and a document confirming family ties (if relevant) should be attached to the application. Consideration period – up to 10 calendar days.
July, 17 saw a special statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia condemning military exercises, staged by the 58th Army of the Russian Federation in Southern Military District and South Ossetia, and naming them “acts of provocation”.
Leonid Tibilov hosted a meeting with Kazbulat Tskhovrebov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, and Znaur Gassiev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation on July, 15.
Issues concerning the work of the Ministry were discussed and the political course was marked out during the meeting.
Once again the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia declared of transferring South Ossetia-Georgian boundary deeper into Georgian territory while establishing entry-resistant constructions. The planned visit of Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, whom the Georgian party tried to bring to border obviously with provocative purposes is also connected with alleged violation of border by South Ossetia representatives.
The professional Day of peacekeepers was celebrated on July, 14 in the Republic of South Ossetia. This day the Joint Peacekeeping Forces entered the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone in 1992. For 16 years the peacekeeping forces have been the only guarantor of peace in the region and faced first attacks of Georgian army in August, 2008. The feat of these heroes will be kept in memory of South Ossetian people.
Kazbulat Tskhovrebov, the newly appointed Foreign Minister was introduced to the department officers on July, 10 when Leonid Tibilov, the President of the Republic visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As the President noted, “the recently appointed minister is not a new person in the department and is well known to the team and is on to the work of the department entrusted to him”.
Pertaining to the appointment of a Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia
Under the President Decree Kazbulat Tskhovrebov was appointed as a Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia on July 9, 2015.
July 10, 2015, Tskhinval
The UN General Assembly has been accepting draft resolution on refugees and displaced persons from South Ossetia and Abkhazia prepared by Georgian party for several years already. Delivering again and again the same writing of the document Georgia tries to impose on international community a unilateral politicized corrupt vision of the problem of refugees to support their non-legitimate territorial claims.
Pertaining to the appointment of an Ambassador Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation
Under the President Decree Znaur Gassiev was appointed as the Ambassador Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation on June 26, 2015.
Short biodata:
Znaur Gassiev was born on May 13, 1974 in Tskhinval.
Education:
North Ossetian State University, Faculty of Law;
Paata Zakareishvili, Georgia State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, declared on December, 8 that Georgian authorities were ready to conduct any form of dialogue, including negotiations with South Ossetia authorities. In his report on the work conducted by the ministry Mr.Zakareishvili stated that it had concentrated on “approaching Abkhazian and Ossetian public” that allowed binding relationship between the people and promoted confidence-building.
Concerning the results of the 30th round of the Geneva International Discussions
Regular round of the Geneva International Discussions where missions from South Ossetia (headed by Murat Dzhioev, the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia on post-conflict settlement), Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia, the USA and representatives of the EU, the UN and the OSCE was held on December 9-10, 2014 in Geneva.