October 20, 2107 saw Dmitriy Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, participating in the X Eurasian Economic Forum in Verona, Italy.

More than 1000 delegates from Russia, Italy, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, South Korea and European states took part in the event.

Businessmen, political and public figures, diplomats and experts addressed the Forum. Prime Minister of Italy from 1996–1998 and 2006–2008 Romano Prodi, CEO of Rosneft Igor Sechin, former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi, German Chancellor from 1998–2005 Gerhard Schroeder, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO of Pirelli & C. Marco Tronchetti Provera, President of Liguria Giovanni Toti, Mayor of Verona Federico Sboarina, State Secretary of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Grigory Rapota, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in Italy and San Marino Sergey Razov, President of Eni Emma Marchegalia, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Italy and Malta Alexander Guryanov and others were among the delegates.

In framework of the visit to Italy the South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitriy Medoev visited Florence on October 19, 2017, where attended Piazzale Bambine e Bambini di Beslan, a square named after the children of Beslan, killed and injured as a result of the terror attack in September 2004.

The meeting of Minister Medoev with Professor Franco Cardini, a famous historian, also took place.