Bagapsh: Abkhazia’s Integration into Russia Still on Agenda

Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh said at a news briefing in Moscow on March 18 that the issue of, as he put it, “associated membership” of Abkhazia into the Russian Federation is still on the agenda.
 
“This issue is still urgent; it still remains on the agenda. We will continue a dialogue, including here [in the Russian Parliament], so that to ensure continuation of this issue,” Interfax news agency quotes Bagapsh as saying.
 
On March 11 Russia’s lower house of Parliament – State Duma rejected the draft law envisaging simplification of procedures of joining the Russian Federation for those breakaway regions on the former Soviet space, which aspire membership in the Russian Federation.

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