ITAR-TASS, Russia
Jan 27 2005

Abkhazia, South Ossetia presidents meet in Moscow

MOSCOW, January 27 (Itar-Tass) – The president of the
self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia, Sergei Bagapsh, met Eduard
Kokoity, president of the South Ossetian republic, in Moscow.

Bagapsh, currently on a working visit in Russia, said on Ekho Moskvy
radio on Thursday that they met `to make a personal acquaintance,
talk about our stances and to resume relations between our republics
that have paused during the presidential elections in Abkhazia’.

He added that he was going to keep relations with presidents of the
Dniester republic and Nagorno-Karabakh in order `to coordinate
actions and establish economic relations’ between the two
unrecognised republics.