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  • Duma Preparing For Hearings On Abkhaz, South Ossetian, Transdniestri

    DUMA PREPARING FOR HEARINGS ON ABKHAZ, SOUTH OSSETIAN, TRANSDNIESTRIAN INDEPENDENCE

    Interfax News Agency
    Russia & CIS
    February 26, 2008
    Russia

    It is expected that the Russian State Duma will hold parliamentary
    hearings on the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia, South
    Ossetia and Transdniestria.

    "The Duma committee for CIS affairs and compatriots asked the Council
    of the State Duma to hold parliamentary hearings on the settlement of
    ethnic conflicts in the post-Soviet territories and the recognition
    of Abkhaz, South Ossetia and Transdniestrian independence on March
    13," first deputy head of this Duma committee, CIS Studies Institute
    Director Konstantin Zatulin told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.

    "The State Duma Council should look into this motion on March 4,"
    the MP said.

    It is planned that speakers of the Abkhaz, South Ossetian,
    Transdniestrian and Nagorno-Karabakh parliaments, as well as
    representatives of Georgia, Moldova, Azerbaijan and Armenian will be
    invited for the hearings, Zatulin said.

    "Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria asked Russia to recognize
    their independence before the recent events in Kosovo," the MP said.

    Speaking about the recognition of independence of these breakaway
    republics, the MP said, "We should start the process of recognizing
    the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia."

    Meanwhile, head of the Duma committee for CIS affairs and compatriots
    Alexei Ostrovsky from the LDPR faction noted that the Nagorno-Karabakh
    issue is not expected to be looked into at the hearings.

    "In this regard I do not understand concerns of the Azeri Foreign
    Ministry, which stated last week that is going to take measures over
    the issue," Ostrovsky told Interfax-AVN.
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