We drew attention to the video message of Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany to the participants in the spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Angela Merkel expressed her concern over the situation in Belarus, in eastern Ukraine, in Crimea and in a number of other regions of the world, during her speech. “If we look at the external borders of Europe, it will become obvious to us that peace and security, stability as well as prosperity are not taken for granted today. The situation in Belarus, eastern Ukraine and Crimea, Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh and, of course, Syria and Libya is more than alarming. There we see everywhere how fundamental rights and not least freedom of the press are under pressure, ” said Angela Merkel.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia sent a congratulatory note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Compatriots Abroad of the Syrian Arab Republic on the 75-th anniversary of Independence Day.

On 9 April, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia met with Matthias Weinreich, the Head of the ICRC Mission to the Republic of Abkhazia,

Attention was drawn to the reaction in Tbilisi to the incident that took place on April 7 this year on the Inguri River, because of which four residents of the Gali and Tkuarchali districts of the Republic of Abkhazia were died.

On April 8, Daur Kove, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia received Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus.

Daur Kove, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia sent a congratulatory note to Dmitri Medoev, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia on the 20-th anniversary of the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Ossetia.

Daur Kove, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Abkhazia met with Mikhail Bogdanov, the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and Africa, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on April 2, 2021.

52nd round of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the Transcaucasus was held in Geneva on March 25-26, 2021, in which representatives of the Republic of Abkhazia, the Republic of South Ossetia, Georgia, the Russian Federation and the United States took part. The round was co-chaired by the UN, OSCE and the EU.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia congratulated Sergey Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the occasion of his birthday.

Avidzba Ibrakhim Hijranovich was appointed Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Abkhazia in the Republic of Turkey by the Decree of Aslan Bzhaniia, the President of Abkhazia.