On February 20, 2019, in Moscow, the Secretary of the de facto Security Council of Tskhinvali Region, Valeri Valiev and the Head of the de facto President’s Administration, Igor Kozaev, discussed the issues of cooperation in the field of security with the Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliyev. Nurgaliyev is the curator of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region within the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

On February 8, 2019, in Moscow, Muhamed Kilba, de facto Secretary of the Security Council of Abkhazia, and his Russian counterpart Nikolay Patrushev signed Security Councils’ collaboration plan for 2019-2020.