Belarus'
House of Representatives speaker Uladzimir Andreychanka told Interfax that the
lower chamber has not yet received an independence recognition request from Abkhazia
and South Ossetia. Russia's
Novyye Izvestiya has run an interview in which Pavel Borodin, state secretary
of the UnionState
of Belarus
and Russia,
alleged that Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka told the House to consider
recognizing the Georgian breakaway provinces as independent states
On Monday, Andreychanka said that the chamber would
consider recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia when the proposal is formally
introduced in Parliament. “The opinion of the people should be taken into
account,” he added. “But nobody has sponsored the proposal yet.”
On October 13, Abkhazia's parliament appealed to
Belarus'
legislature to recognize the territory's independence.
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