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Zaza Nodarovich Driaev | |
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| Member of the Parliament of South Ossetia | |
| Assumed office 2019 | |
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| Political party | Political independent |
Zaza Nodarovich Driaev is an Ossetian politician from the partially recognized Caucasian Republic of South Ossetia, which most of the UN recognizes as part of Georgia, occupied by Russia. Driaev is the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Ties, and as such, determines much of the foreign policy of the Republic.
Diraev was elected to the South Ossetian parliament in the 2019 election as a political independent, however, joined the governmental support of Anatoly Bibilov, despite refusing to join his United Ossetia party. [1]
In 2019 Driaev was among the South Ossetian politicians that called on Georgian officials to take down border checkpoints on the South Ossetian border, namely near the village of Tsnelis going so far as to suggest the South Ossetian KGB dismantle the checkpoints by force. However, despite South Ossetian protests over the border checkpoint supposedly being in South Ossetian territory, the post was well inside the demarcated borders of the 2008 ceasefire, and the post was not removed after an investigation by the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia and the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism. [2] [3] In 2020 Driaev caved to protesters in Tskhinval that called for the resignation of the government of Gennady Bekoyev. Driaev announced that he was going to open a parliamentary investigation towards possible censure of the South Ossetian general prosecutor, the cause for the public's dissatisfaction with the government. [4]
Driaev is the co-chairman of the Commission for Cooperation between the Federation Council and the Parliament of the Republic of South Ossetia, as well as the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Policy and Interparliamentary Ties. In these capacities he met with a delegation of Russian politicians, led by Grigory Karasin, that visited South Osseita in 2023 to mark the 15th anniversary of Russia's recognition the of South Ossetia's independence. [5] [6]
As Foreign policy chairman, Driaev was tasked with establishing a committee to explore possible Belarusian recognition of South Ossetian independence, after the issue was introduced by Alan Tekhov and approved by Alan Alborov. [7] Additionally, he urged the rest of parliament to follow a Russian Duma decree that the United States must end its embargo on Cuba, as well as denounce the death of civilians in the Israel–Hamas war. [8]
In November 2023, Driaev, alongside Sarmat Ikoev, went on a state visit to North Ossetia to meet with their parliament over implementing matching laws on "Physical Culture and Sports" in both North and South Ossetia. [9] [10]
South Ossetia, officially the Republic of South Ossetia or the State of Alania, is a partially recognised landlocked state in the South Caucasus. It has an officially stated population of just over 56,500 people (2022), who live in an area of 3,900 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi), with 33,000 living in the capital city, Tskhinvali.
Tskhinvali or Tskhinval is the capital of the disputed de facto independent Republic of South Ossetia, internationally considered part of Shida Kartli, Georgia. Tskhinvali Region, known historically as Samachablo, was always part of the Georgian state as a single military and administrative entity. It is located on the Great Liakhvi River approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) northwest of the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
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