Abkhazia will remain independent from Russia - Bagapsh
posted by circassiankama on March, 2009 as Abkhazia
Abkhazia will remain independent from Russia - Bagapsh
17/03/2009 21:55 MOSCOW,
March 17 (RIA Novosti) - Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh said on
Tuesday that the former Georgian republic had no plans to become a part
of Russia, the Russian daily paper Izvestia reported.
The paper
said that Sergei Bagapsh made the statement at the meeting with the
vice-president of the non-governmental International Crisis Group,
Alain Delatroz, and the director of the organization's office for the
Caucasus region, Lawrence Sheets.
"We are building an independent, legal and democratic state and are not planning to backtrack from this path," Bagapsh said.
"We
have no illusions that tomorrow the whole world will recognize us, but
it is important for us that the world's largest country, Russia, has
recognized us," he added.
Russia recognized Abkhazia and South
Ossetia, another former Georgian republic, as independent states two
weeks after the end of a five-day war with Georgia last August.
Fighting began when Georgian forces attacked South Ossetia in a bid to
bring it back under central control.
Bagapsh also said Abkhazia
was ready for cooperation with any country wishing "to establish normal
relations." However, he also said that Abkhazia would not hold talks
"with the Saakashvili regime."
Nicaragua is the only to country to have joined Russia in recognizing the two republics.
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