Avidzba Lasha, the Deputy Head of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia was awarded the diplomatic rank of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the 1st class by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Abkhazia Raul Khadzhimba on December 29,2018.

Valery Bganba, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia and Vasily Golubev, the Governor of the Rostov Region signed the plan for cooperation between the Cabinet of Ministers (Government) of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Government of the Rostov Region for 2018-2021.

Today, in the State Administration of the city of Tiraspol, young Tiraspol citizens were honored - the finalists of the children's international drawing contest “Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria: friendship, sealed by time”.

The meeting of Daur Kove, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia with Harry Kupalba, the Head of the Official Representative Office of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the Republic of Abkhazia took place on December 25,2018.

From the Abkhaz side the event was attended by Jemal Bganba, the acting Head of the Department of Strategic Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia, Oleg Bartsits, Trade Representative of the Republic of Abkhazia in Russia, Vladimir Litvinchuk, the Honorary Consul of Abkhazia in Nizhny Novgorod as well as young Abkhaz pop stars.

Daur Kove, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia sent a congratulatory note to Vitaly Ignatiev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic on the occasion of the national holiday the Constitution Day of Transdniestria.

Daur Kove, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia delivered a report at the conference "Information Policy in the Modern World" organized by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Abkhazia on November 18,2018. On behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, Irakli Tuzhba, Deputy Foreign Minister and Timur Shanava, the Advisor to the Minister also took part in the event.

In Moscow, the New Year carnival for children was organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Russian Federation and the Moscow Abkhaz diaspora.

26 years have passed since one of the most tragic events in the history of modern Abkhazia.

The 46-th Round of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the South Caucasus took place in Geneva on December 11-12, 2018. The Discussions was attended by the representatives of the Republic of Abkhazia, the Republic of South Ossetia, Georgia, the Russian Federation and the United States co-chaired by the UN, OSCE and EU.