Sergey Lavrov: Process of international recognition of Abkhazia's independence irreversible

11:53, 27.08.2019

The process of international recognition of Abkhazia as an independent state is irreversible, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a documentary about former so-called Abkhazian “president” Sergey Bagapsh.

Lavrov said that this process started during Bagapsh’s presidency. “The first country to recognize Abkhazia was Nicaragua, followed by Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Now Syria has also joined the group of countries that recognized Abkhazia,” the Russian foreign minister said. “I am confident that this process is irreversible,” he added.

Sergey Lavrov noted that Abkhazia has shown itself as a “democratic state,” the “foundations of which were laid by Bagapsh.”

Russia recognized the independence and sovereignty of Georgia’s two breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on 26 August 2008, immediately after the Russia-Georgia War over Georgia’s Tskhinvali region.

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