The 47-th round of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the South Caucasus which was attended by the representatives of the Republic of Abkhazia, the Republic of South Ossetia, Georgia, the Russian Federation and the United States under the co-chairmanship of the UN, OSCE and the EU took place on April 2-3 April 2019 in Geneva. The delegation of the Republic of Abkhazia was headed by Daur Kove, the Foreign Minister.

The meeting of Kove D.V. and Lavrov S.V., the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation was held on April 1,2019.

Vito Grittani, the Ambassador-at-large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia had the meeting with Juan Rodriguez Díaz, the Ambassador of Venezuela to Italy at the Embassy of Venezuela in Italy on March 8,2019.

Daur Kove, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia will visit Moscow at the invitation of Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on a working visit on April 1,2018.

Daur Kove, the Minister of Foreign Affairs met with a the UNHCR delegation at the Foreign Ministry of Abkhazia on March 27,2019. The delegation includes Pascal Moreau, the Director of the European Bureau, UNHCR; Francois Renault, the head of the European Bureau of the UNHCR; Johannes Van der Klaauw, the regional representative of the UNHCR in the South Caucasus; Yoko Akasaka, the deputy regional representative of the UNHCR in the South Caucasus.

Daur Kove, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia congratulated Oleg Botsiev, the Ambassador of South Ossetia in the Republic of Abkhazia on the occasion of his anniversary.

In the information space there has never been a lack of tendentious publications devoted to Abkhazia. The existing reality is fed into them exclusively in dark colors and extremely subjective. Often the source of such publications are Georgian or sympathetic information resources. But often they appear on neutral Internet resources.

Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General who arrived in Tbilisi to familiarize himself with the course of the command and staff exercises of Georgia and NATO, made a number of statements urging Russia to withdraw recognition of Abkhazia’s independence, stressing the North Atlantic Alliance’s sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia.

The National Security and Defense of the Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions on the legal entities and individuals including a number of citizens of the Republic of Abkhazia on March 20,2019 who participated as the observers at elections in the Donbas.  

Daur Kove, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia congratulated Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the occasion of his birthday.