In framework of the preparations to the official visit of Anatlii Bibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, to the Syrian Arab Republic, a meeting of Dmitrii Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, and Walid Muallem, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic, was organized on July 22.

July 20 saw Dmitrii Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, leaving for the Syrian Arab Republic on an official visit.

The delegation, which heads off to Damascus to make arrangements for the forthcoming official visit of the South Ossetian President Anatolii Bibilov to the Syrian Arab Republic that would take place in a short period of time, includes officers of the Foreign Ministry and the Administration of the President.

The resolution titled “10 Years after the August War”, which calls for Russia to revoke recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and to withdraw its troops from the territory of Georgia, was adopted at the annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Berlin on July 11. The desire to include Georgia in NATO was reaffirmed by the authorities of the Alliance at NATO summit in Brussels on the same day.

Anatolii Bibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosted a meeting with Andrey Tibilov, the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in Brazil, on July 5.

Dmitrii Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, participated in the meeting as well.

The so-called Otkhozoria-Tatunashvili sanction list, which includes citizens of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Republic of Abkhazia, who allegedly in various periods of time had committed various offences against Georgian nationals, was published in Georgia on June 26, 2018.