The president of Abkhazia plans to diversify the economy of the region

Sergey Bagapsh, the president of Abkhazia, said the the Abkhazian economy should not only be based on exports of mandarins and mimosa, RIA Novosti reports. He called tourism the priority of the economy. He alsopointed to the common project of Abkhazia and "Rosneft" in developing oil drilling in the Black Sea. He said that the technologies used would meet the ecological standards.