President Dmitry Medvedev's decision to recognize the independence of Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia will "leave Russia isolated", Georgian Minister for Reintegration Temur Iakobashvili said Tuesday.
Speaking shortly after President Medvedev signed decrees recognizing the independence of the two regions Tuesday, Iakobashvili said the decision was a challenge not only to Georgia but to the international community as it violated the UN Charter, Georgian news agency Caucasus Press reported.
On Monday, both houses of the Russian parliament voted to approve appeals to Medvedev for the recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.
The two regions broke from central Georgian rule during wars in the early 1990s after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, but their self-proclaimed independence is not recognized internationally.
Source:Xinhua
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