According to information available in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia official Tbilisi plans to organize scaled provocations at the state border with the Republic of South Ossetia.

On 14 July 2011, the Day of a Peacekeeper is celebrated in the Republic of South Ossetia.

Question. Joint NATO-Georgia conference is being held in Tbilisi. The main subject of the conference is joint plans of Georgia with North-Atlantic Alliance. In your opinion what such a close collaboration of NATO and Georgia can result in?

On June 29, 2011 at the session of UN General Assembly in New York was adopted a resolution «Situation of displaced persons from Abkhazia, Georgia and Tskhinval Region/South Ossetia, Georgia».

Georgian delegation has prepared and officially introduced to the secretariat resolution project of 65 session of the UN General Assembly “Situation of internally displaced persons from Abkhazia, Georgia and Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia”. Text of the resolution project is similar to the previous year document. It is talked of refugees – ethnical Georgians, displaced in the consequence of attack of Georgian troops on South Ossetia in August 2008.

On 22 June 2011 Regional Court of Dzau delivered judgment on administrative exclusion of ten citizens of Georgia which on 18 and 19 June of the current year were detained by the South Ossetia frontiers not far from the village Koz of Dzau Region, Republic of South Ossetia, for illegal crossing of the state border between the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia. Today these individuals were expelled to Georgia.

Under all internationally recognized norms extermination of individual population groups on racial, national, ethnic or religious grounds as well as creating living conditions calculated to bring about destruction, in whole or in part, of these groups or imposing on the groups measures intended to prevent births within the groups, is considered as one of the most heinous crimes against humanity and is defined as genocide.

A number of bilateral agreements between the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation were concluded. What is their effect?

On 18 and 19 June, 2011 ten citizens of Georgia having violated the state border between the Republic of South Ossetia and Georgia were detained in Dzau Region of the Republic of South Ossetia not far from the village Koz. At present relevant South Ossetian services carry out an investigative action with the detainees upon completion of which case papers will reach the trial.

On 31 May, 2011 by the Decree of President of the Republic of South Ossetia E. Kokoity President Counsellor of State of RSO Narim Zakharovich Kozaev is appointed an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Brief biographic reference:

Narim Zakharovich Kozaev was born on 24 February, 1965 in town Tskhinval. He got education in Gorsky Agricultural Institute in town Vladikavkaz in 1982-1988; since 2009 he has been a student of Diplomatic Academy of MFA in RF. He has state awards of RSO.

14 June, 2011
Tskhinval