Posted on 09/05/2008 3:47:45 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Recognition a Lonely Exercise for Moscow
05 September 2008
By Nabi Abdullaev / Staff Writer
Ten days after Russia recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, the only other country to have followed suit as of Thursday was that Cold War battlefield of the 1980s: Nicaragua.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's announcement this week of his Central American nation's recognition of the breakaway Georgian regions was a "pleasant surprise," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Closer to home, however, Russia's allies among former Soviet republics have remained reticent on the issue.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Russia-led alliance of seven former Soviet republics that Moscow hopes will evolve into a full-fledged military bloc, issued a statement Thursday criticizing Georgia's military campaign -- which was crushed by Russia -- but making no mention of the Kremlin's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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