Reports: Separatist Leaders Meet in Moscow

Leaders from three secessionist regions – Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh – Sergey Bagapsh, Eduard Kokoev and Arkadi Gukasyan held talks in Moscow on March 16, news agency Interfax reports on March 17. 

Interfax also reports, that the leaders of three breakaway regions agreed to hold a meeting of the de facto Presidents of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transdnestria in April in Abkhaz capital, Sokhumi.

But Armenian news agency Mediamax reported on March 16 quoting official of Foreign Ministry of unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh that leader of this region was not planning to participate in this kind of meeting, as the issue was not even discussed with the Karabakhi side.

Earlier Sergey Bagapsh, the President of Georgia?s breakaway Abkhazia, said at a news conference in Moscow that the leaders from the four breakaway regions plan to hold a summit in an attempt to coordinate their policies. 

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