The signing of the Treaty on Alliance and Integration between the
The Russian Presidents Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov stated that the so-called agreement on
Meanwhile, the South Ossetian Parliament is planning a vote of no confidence in de facto Foreign Minister David Sanakoyev for various "blunders," including having leaked the amended text of the treaty to the press two months ago, Radio Liberty reports.
As it was the case with Abkhazia, the draft treaty triggered heated disagreements within the South Ossetian leadership over the optimum degree of rapprochement and cooperation between the two polities. Parliament speaker Anatoly Bibilov, whose Yedinaya Osetiya (One Ossetia) party controls 20 seats in the 34 parliament elected in June 2014, advocated a far closer degree of "integration" with
The fourth and final version of the treaty provides for closer cooperation between the armed forces and security structures of the two polities but does not stipulate as a long-term goal the referendum on South Ossetia’s incorporation into the
Though there are various assumptions circulating in media concerning the postponement of the signing, it is obvious that