SUKHUM, Mar 10 Abkhazia established diplomatic relations with the Lugansk People's Republic on Thursday, currently Meanwhile, a draft treaty on friendship and cooperation between the republics is being prepared, the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Abkhazia reports. On February 25, the President of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhaniya, signed decrees recognizing the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. On Wednesday, Abkhazia established diplomatic relations with the DPR. «On March 10, 2022, the Republic of Abkhazia and the Luhansk People's Republic established diplomatic relations through the exchange of notes. A draft interstate treaty on friendship and cooperation is currently being prepared, which will become the foundation for the further formation of a legal framework between Republic of Abkhazia and the Luhansk People's Republic,» the message says. It is specified that the republics support Russia's course aimed at the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. «The Republic of Abkhazia and the Luhansk People's Republic support the desire to strengthen friendship and cooperation between the two peoples, strive to promote the and equal relations and are guided by the intention to develop interaction in the interests of the peoples of the two states on the basis of mutual respect for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity and other generally recognized principles and norms of international rights, first of all, the Charter of the United Nations,» the agency clarified. called Russia's recognition of the LPR and DPR justified
