September 19 saw A. M. Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosting a meeting with a delegation of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, who arrived in Tskhinval to participate in the celebrations, dedicated to the Day of the Republic.
On September 17, 14 years ago, the Treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance was signed between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation.
On September 5, Akhsar Dzhioev, the South Ossetian Foreign Minister, hosted a meeting with Mauro Murgia, the Representative of the South Ossetian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Italy, who had arrived in Tskhinval on a working visit.
The delegation, headed by Mr. Murgia, included Monica Moroni, a flutist from San Marino, and Luca Pingitore, a journalist, expert on the Caucasus.
Commemorative events, dedicated to the 18th anniversary of the Beslan tragedy are being held in Ossetia on September 1-3. On September 1, 2004, on the Day of Knowledge, terrorists attacked Beslan school №1 and took pupils, their parents and teachers hostage. As a result of the terrorist attack, unprecedented by its violence, 334 people were killed, including 186 children.
At the invitation from the Beslan Mother’s Committee, a delegation from Italy and San Marino is in Beslan on September 1-3, the anniversary of the bloody terrorist attack. The Representation Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in Italy initiated and organized the event.
Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia participated in the V Global Forum of Young Diplomats, organized by the Council of Young Diplomats of the Russian Foreign Ministry, on August 27 - 29 in Kazan.
August 26 saw the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev hosting a meeting with a delegation from the Donetsk People’s Republic, headed by Sergey Peresada, the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Donetsk, who arrived in Tskhinval to participate in the celebrations, dedicated to the 14th anniversary of the recognition of the independence of the Republic of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation.
August 26 is the day of recognition of the state independence of the Republic of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation. The epochal event in the recent history of the Republic, which took place fourteen years ago, was the logical result of the forced longstanding struggle of the people of South Ossetia against permanent aggression by Georgia, victims of which were thousands of defenders and civilians of South Ossetia, while more than a hundred thousand Ossetians became refugees.
August 25 saw the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev hosting a meeting with Alan Pliev, Head of the Official Representation of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the Republic of South Ossetia.
Alan Pliev congratulated Akhsar Dzhioev with the appointment to a high position and wished the Minister success at the new responsible post.
On August 25, a press conference of the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Akhsar Dzhioev was held in the press centre of the State Committee for Information and Press.
Congratulatory messages on the occasion of the appointment to the post of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia have been received by Akhsar Dzhioev.
On August 23, Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetian, hosted a meeting with Marat Kulakhmetov, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of South Ossetia.
