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Report: Ex-Soviet Rebel Leaders To Meet In Moscow - AFP3-12-08 12:23 PM EDT
MOSCOW (AFP)--Leaders of three rebel ex-Soviet provinces were to meet in Moscow on Wednesday on the eve of a Russian parliament hearing where they hope to further their independence bids, Interfax news agency said.
"We will hold consultations with the presidents of Abkhazia and Transdnestr today" in Moscow, the self-declared president of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity, was quoted by Interfax as saying.
The talks will focus on "our moves towards independence," Kokoity said.
RIA Novosti news agency reported that Sergei Bagapsh, self-declared president of another Georgian separatist province, Abkhazia, had also flown to Moscow for talks ahead of the parliamentary hearing.
Russia's lower house of parliament on Thursday will listen to appeals from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the Moldovan rebel region of Transdnestr as part of a drive for international ...
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