In his greeting speech Alan Kochiev stated that people of South Ossetia follow the situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, sympathize with fraternal people and wish speedy solution to the crisis. He also offered condolences to families of victims.

Minister Tskhovrebov expressed serious concern over the affairs in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict area. The Minister assured his colleague that South Ossetia people follow the development of situation and offered words of support to people of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The need to exercise commitment and moderation for preventing uncontrolled escalation of the conflict, that can destabilize the entire region, was emphasized.

Wide range of questions on bilateral cooperation, including first of all, the assistance given to the Republic of South Ossetia by the Russian Federation in social and economic spheres in framework of the investment program, were discussed at the meeting with Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation.

President Tibilov noted the high level of South Ossetia-Russia relations and emphasized the priority of security issues vital for the Republic as well as the importance of further implementation of the Treaty on Alliance and Integration signed between South Ossetia and Russia in March 2015.

Full range of the activity conducted by the Mission on territory of the Republic was talked in detail. In particular humanitarian assistance stipulated by the ICRC mandate was marked.

— Indeed, difficult 11 years have our citizens spent in Georgian prisons. All these years we in South Ossetia were claiming that those detentions and imprisonments had been unlawful and insisted on release. This issue was regularly raised by South Ossetia representatives within the Joint Control Committee (JCC) and at other levels. However due to the unconstructive position of Georgian party and non-availability to solute even those problems that are humanitarian, non-political, there were no serious progress on this front. Therefore I would like to express gratitude for the efforts made by our public representatives in general and by Lira Kozeva in particular. They were engaged in this case and sometimes have gained even better results than those achieved by officials of the Republic due to the non-governmental character of activity. In particular, they helped in organizing meetings between relatives of the detainees and officials and in transmitting applications to Georgian governmental agencies.

The procedure took place at check-point located near River Ingur about Abkhazian-Georgian border. Kazbulat Tskhovrebov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia, Viacheslav Chirikba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, Oleg Botsiev, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Republic of South Ossetia in Republic of Abkhazia, and other officials participated in the procedure.