Nicaragua to establish relations with South Ossetia, Abkhazia

Tue, 13 Apr 2010

Managua - Nicaragua plans to establish diplomatic ties this week with the disputed Caucasus regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Foreign Minister Samuel Santos will travel to Tskinvale, South Ossetia's capital, and Abkhazia after a trip to Moscow that begins Tuesday, Nicaraguan officials announced Monday.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia have no international recognition, except from Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Nauru, a tiny island nation in Micronesia.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been de-facto independent since the early 1990s, but their isolation from Georgia proper increased in the wake of the 2008 Russian-Georgian conflict, which led Moscow to set up military bases in the two territories.

Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/318374,nicaragua-to-establish-relations-with-south-ossetia-abkhazia.html.