The year 2020 was declared the Year of remembrance by the decree of the President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov, and there is a lot of responsible work to be done to prevent a repeat of the events of 1991 – 1992, 2004 and 2008, which occurred due to the fault of the Georgian barbarians, said Murat Dzhioev, presidential Plenipotentiary for post-conflict settlement.
South Ossetia should talk about the recognition of genocide at all levels and declare it at all venues,” said Robert Gagloyty, Director of the South Ossetian Research Institute.
These days, the Republic is holding commemorative events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the genocide of the South Ossetian people committed by Georgia. June 20, 1920 13 communards were shot.
The genocide of 1920, carried out by Georgia, is one of the gravest crimes against the Ossetian people, head of the Department of history of Ossetia and Caucasian studies of the South Ossetia State University, Candidate of History, Professor Yuri Gagloty said in a comment to IA "RES".
“The whole tragedy of these events lies in the fact that the Georgian professional mobilized army with officers who had been trained in the Russian imperial army were practically fighting against the unarmed Ossetian people,” the historian said.
The resigning of Ketevan Tsikhelashvili as the State Minister for Reconciliation was caused by failures in Georgia’s policy in the South Ossetian direction, which were directly related to the activities of its department, said Yuri Vazagov, a member of the expert council of the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry, in a comment to IA“ Res " .
Regarding the recognition of the genocide of the Ossetian people, the 100th anniversary of which is marked this year, it is necessary to use the so-called popular diplomacy, communicate with non-governmental organizations, social movements, ordinary people, regardless of the position of an individual, the historian Robert Kulumbegov believes.
Until Georgian politicians and Georgian society as a whole give assess honestly and objectively the genocide of 1920, the events of the 90s of the last century, the shameful military aggression of 2008 and recognize their responsibility for the consequences of the aggressive policy against South Ossetia, talks about improving relationships are pointless.
This is stated in the commentary of the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia, published on the official website on Wednesday.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia, Dmitry Medov, noted in a comment to the Res news agency that the formation of the country's foreign policy department was connected with the creation of the first government of the Republic.
Medoev has reminded that on May 28-29, 1992, amid the escalation of Georgian armed aggression against the people of South Ossetia and bloody hostilities, a session of the Supreme Council of the Republic of South Ossetia was held in Tskhinval, where the Act of Declaration of Independence of South Ossetia was adopted.
South Ossetia is concerned about the work of the Richard Lugar Public Health Research Center in Georgia, which is located near the Georgian-South Ossetian border, and hopes that Russian experts will be allowed to monitor the laboratory, South Ossetian Foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev told TASS on Wednesday.
Agreements signed in Moscow on the procedure for providing financial assistance and support for investment activities, as well as on the procedure for providing financial assistance for socio-economic development are of great importance for South Ossetia, said President of the Republic Anatoly Bibilov.
“The implementation of the provisions of the signed documents is directly related to improving the quality of life of residents of the Republic,” said Anatoly Bibilov in a comment to IA “Res.”
Yuri Vazagov, member of the expert council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia, held a press briefing in Tskhinval for journalists: “Georgia in a pandemic: problems and prospects.”
As noted by Vazagov, the coronavirus pandemic that swept Georgia, revealed a number of persistent trends caused by both domestic and foreign policy factors.
