Ukrainian FM on Kiev’s Position over Abkhaz, S.Ossetia Recognition

Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Konstantine Grishchenko, indicated in a newspaper interview that Kiev was not considering recognition of independence of Georgia’s breakaway regions.

Asked if Ukraine was mulling over possible recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Grishchenko told Kommersant-Ukraine, Russian daily Kommersant’s Ukraine-based broadsheet:  “For us territorial integrity and inviolability of borders is a principal issue. Full stop.”

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