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Venezuela recognises Georgia rebel regions - report
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-09-10 18:40

MOSCOW: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday said he was recognising the pro-Russian rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states.

Chavez told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during a visit to the Kremlin that his country would consider the two regions -- considered by most of the world as part of Georgia -- sovereign states "from today", Russian news agencies reported.