Georgia's Breakaway Regions Seek Recognition after Kosovo

World | March 6, 2008, Thursday // 00:00
Georgia's Breakaway Regions Seek Recognition after Kosovo Georgia's Breakaway Regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are stepping up efforts to get international recognition following Kosovo's independence. Map by globalsecurity.org

Governments in Georgia's breakaway republics, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, are stepping up efforts to get international recognition following the recognition and the West's support for Kosovo's secession.

The parliament in South Ossetia, a pro-Russian breakaway region in the Caucasus mountains with a population of less than 100,000, has sent an appeal for recognition to the UN, the European Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and Russia, Ria Novosti reported.

"Seventeen years of South Ossetia's de facto independence proves the republic's liability, and its sovereignty needs to be legitimized by the UN Charter," the document reads.

Abkhazia, another breakaway republic with a population around 200,000, also has plans to reiterate its calls for recognition with officials saying an appeal will be sent to the Russian parliament and the UN.

Shortly after Kosovo declared independence on February 17, both Abkhazia and South Ossetia, said Kosovo's independence should be taken into account in relation to their independence.

Russia's lower house of parliament the State Duma is to discuss the issue of the former Soviet republics on March 13.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ruled out an American recognition of South Ossetia, saying on Thursday the appeal was "a provocation from Moscow."

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