Donetsk, Dec 24 – DAN. DPR and South Ossetia have exchanged the instruments of ratification of the Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Agreement, the DPR Foreign Ministry press service told DAN.

"Today the sides exchanged instruments of ratification in Tskhinval. It is the most important event, the final stage to make the Agreement fully functioning."

According to press service, Natalia Nikonorova of the DPR and Dmitry Medoyev of South Ossetia were present.

The two countries signed the Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Agreement in Donetsk on May 11, 2017. It ratified two months later. *ot