Breakaway Abkhazia Pledges Support for South Ossetia

Valeri Arshba, Vice-President of unrecognized Abkhaz Republic, said that Sukhumi is closely watching developments in Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia and that Abkhazia is ready to render any necessary assistance to Tskhinvali.

“We are not going to remain indifferent towards our South Ossetian brothers. We will help them as we can,” the Abkhaz news agency Apsnypress quoted Valeri Arshba as saying on July 12.

He said that an agreement reached between the authorities of the two unrecognized republics envisions “mutual political, economic and military assistance.”