Nicaragua restoring relations with Abkhazia

A Nicaragua delegation will make a 3-day visit to Abkhazia tomorrow, to establish diplomatic relations between the republics, RIA Novosti reports, citing Abkhazian Foreign Ministry.

The Foreign Ministers of Nicaragua and South Ossetia Samuel Santos and Murat Jioyev signed a declaration establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries today.

Lopez will head the Nicaraguan delegation. He will be assisted a Charge d’Affaires to Russia Luis Alberto Molina Cuadro, head of Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry’s Department of European countries Roberto Antonio Leal Coppampu, First Secretary of Nicaragua’s Embassy in Russia Juan Ernesto Vasquez Araya.

His visit includesan official meeting with Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh, meetings in the Foreign Ministry and in the Parliament of the republic. The visit will start with laying of the flowers to the a glory monument of the soldiers that died in the Patriotic War of 1992-1993 in Sukhumi.

Nicaraguan diplomats will participate in an open photo show of a local artist and a concert of the state ensemble of folk dance “Caucasus”. On it’s departure day, 17th April, Nicaraguan delegation will the New Athos karst cave and other sites of New Athos.