MOSCOW, September 14 on the agenda, upon receipt of specific proposals, they will be considered by Moscow, Denis Gonchar, director of the fourth department of the CIS countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Federation. Upon receipt of specific proposals, they will be considered by Moscow in accordance with the procedure established by domestic procedures. Thus, we can say that the issue of a referendum is not on the agenda at the moment,» Gonchar said. Earlier, the former president of South Ossetia, Anatoly Bibilov, proposed putting the issue of «unification» of the two countries to a vote, however, as the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov noted earlier, such a scheme unrealizable, since it involves the creation of some kind of «third» state. On May 30, the new president of South Ossetia, Alan Gagloev, signed a decree «On ways of further integration of the Republic of South Ossetia and the Russian Federation», suspending the decree of his predecessor on holding a referendum on this topic. On June 21, a statement was published on the website of the head of the republic following the results of the Russian-South Ossetian consultations, which indicated that the plebiscite scheduled by Bibilov was not agreed with Moscow. The document also confirmed that the ambiguity of the above wording precludes the possibility of its implementation.
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