Russia to sign S.Ossetia, Abkhazia cooperation pacts this week
14:46 | 15/ 09/ 2008
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080915/116798320.html
MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will sign cooperation
agreements, which will have a military component, with Abkhazia and
South Ossetia this week, President Dmitry Medvedev said Monday.
"This week I will sign the relevant special agreements to develop
friendly ties with these new states within international law," Medvedev
told Russian businessmen.
Russia recognized Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia as independent states after Tbilisi's offensive to retake the
latter in early August.
Western nations strongly criticized Russia for its "disproportionate"
response to Georgia's attack, and its recognition of South Ossetia and
Abkhazia. So far only Nicaragua has followed suit, but Belarus looks
likely to do so later this month.
Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia following the
collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s amid bloody conflicts
that claimed thousands of lives.
Russia established official diplomatic relations with the two republics
on September 9.
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