The Third Young Diplomats Forum, organized by the Board of Young Diplomats under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation with the assistance of The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, was held in Moscow on August 2-3, 2016.

Young diplomats from the Republic of South Ossetia, the Republic of Abkhazia, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan participated in the Forum.

Under the President Decree Murat Dzioev was appointed as a Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia on August 9, 2016.

President Tibilov hosted a meeting with delegation of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela headed by Alvaro Enrique Sanchez Cordero, temporary charge d'affaires, which arrived to the Republic of South Ossetia upon the invitation received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

July 12 saw Leonid Tibilov, the President of the Republic of South Ossetia, receiving credentials from Juan Ernesto Vásquez Araya, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua in the Republic of South Ossetia.

Andrey Tskhovrebov, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia, participated in delivery presentation of the credentials.

Andrey Tskhovrebov, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosted a meeting with delegation of the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela headed by Alvaro Enrique Sanchez Cordero, temporary charge d'affaires.

Current bilateral agenda was discussed and exchange of opinions on the perspectives of intensifying cooperation and building up interaction between the Republic of South Ossetia and Venezuela took place in a confident and constructive atmosphere.

Andrey Tskhovrebov, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosted a meeting with Juan Ernesto Vásquez Araya, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Nicaragua in the Republic of South Ossetia, who handed copies of credentials, on July 11.

Range of relevant issues concerning bilateral relations and the perspectives of cooperation between South Ossetia and Nicaragua at international stage were discussed at the meeting in warm and friendly atmosphere.

The resolution “Conflict in Georgia”, prepared by Georgia delegation, has been approved at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly that took place on July 5 in Tbilisi.

Andrey Tskhovrebov, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia, hosted a meeting with Nalan Antmen, Head of the ICRC mission in South Ossetia, on July 01.