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Pridnestrovie's President Igor Smirnov plans a two-day summit with his counterparts from Abkhazia and South Ossetia in November

SUKHUMI (Tiraspol Times) - The leaders of three unrecognized countries on the space of the former Soviet Union will meet in early November to discuss the shared quest for international recognition of their statehood.

Abkhazia's parliament announced Monday that the presidents of Pridnestrovie, Abkhazia and South Ossetia will meet in Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, during a two-day international summit on 4 November and 5 November.

Talks between Abkhaz President Sergei Bagapsh, South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity and Pridnestrovian President Igor Smirnov will be held under the auspices of the Community for Democracy and Human Rights. The organization was established by Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Pridnestrovie at a summit in Sukhumi in 2006 to provide a joint forum to discuss ways to resolve the long-running territorial claims by Georgia and Moldova.

Georgia has repeatedly expressed its intention to regain control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Moldova still maintains a 17 year old territorial claim to the territory of Pridnestrovie. Pridnestrovie, which has an ethnic Russian-speaking majority, proclaimed its independence from the Moldavian SSR in 1990, one year before the current Republic of Moldova came into existence.

The "de facto" independent country, which is also known under the informal names of Transnistria and Transdniestria, has never been part of any independent Moldovan state at any time in the past one thousand years.

See also:
» Other unrecognized states follow Pridnestrovie's lead, South Ossetia says [1]
» Unrecognized countries appeal to international law [2]

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» The Fourth World: Invisible countries [3]

On the web:
» community-dpr.org [4]