The leaders of Georgia's separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia appealed to the United Nations on Monday to put them in line for international recognition after Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo.
Abkhazia's Sergei Bagapsh and South Ossetia's Eduard Kokoity also said they hoped for stronger support from their patron Russia now that it finds itself increasingly at odds with the West.
Georgia, whose pro-Western government is at odds with Moscow, accuses Russia of trying to annex the regions and demands that Russian peacekeepers be removed. It rules out independence for Ossetia and Abkhazia. [More]
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