On October 9, 2019, Odyssey Bigvava, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia held a meeting with Cihan Sultanoglu, the Co-Chairs of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the Caucasus - UN Viorel Mosanu, Co-Chair OSCE Co-Chair and Gottfried Hanne, Political Advisor to the EU Co-Chair. 

Alyas Aiba, Counselor of the 2-nd class, Counselor-Envoy of the Embassy of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Republic of Nicaragua has been awarded the diplomatic rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the 2-nd class.

Martin Tarkil was appointed as Head of Staff of the MFA by order of Sergey Shamba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia.

A meeting was held in the office of the Moscow Abkhaz Diaspora, in which Sergey Shamba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia and Alkhas Kvitsiniia, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Abkhazia to the Russian Federation took part. The agenda of the event was the results of the meeting of Sergey Shamba with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov.

The Embassy of South Ossetia in Russia hosted a ceremony to award Alkhas Kvitsiniia, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Abkhazia to Russia with the Order of Friendship. The award was presented by Akhsar Dzhioev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia. The award ceremony was attended by Sergey Shamba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia.

Thank you very much... You yourself remembered the times when you and I established diplomatic relations between our countries and then after that we signed a Memorandum on cooperation between our ministries. This period, of course, was fateful for our people, because the dream of many generations of our people for independence came true.

At the invitation of the Embassy of the Republic of Honduras in Nicaragua, Inar Ladaria, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Abkhazia to Nicaragua and Alias ​​Aiba, the Minister-Counselor of the Embassy took part in a ceremony dedicated to the 232 nd anniversary of the birth of General Francisco Morazan Quesada, the national hero of Honduras.

From October 1-st to 4-th, the VIII Eurasian Forum of Young Diplomats is being held in Moscow as part of the New Generation program.

Sergey Shamba, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia left for Moscow on a working visit.

Yesterday, the Israeli Air Force launched an airstrike from the Golan Heights on a residential building in the Mezzeh area of Damascus. Diplomatic missions of various countries, including the Embassy of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Syrian Arab Republic are located there. As a result of the attack, three civilians were killed and three more were wounded.