Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has thanked Nauru President David Adeang for his country’s decision to revoke recognition of the independence of Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
According to the Georgian government’s administration, Kobakhidze held a phone call with Adeang and expressed Tbilisi’s readiness to begin official negotiations on mutual recognition and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Pacific island nation, News Georgia reports.
The two leaders also discussed prospects for expanding bilateral cooperation in various fields.
In late July, the government of Nauru, which recently changed its official name to the Republic of Naoero, formally annulled its 2009 decisions recognising the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and immediately severed all diplomatic contacts with the two territories.
The move was welcomed in Tbilisi as a demonstration of respect for international law, while officials in Sukhumi described it as a “forced decision”.
Nauru’s decision has reduced the number of countries recognising the self-proclaimed independence of Georgia’s occupied territories to four: Russia, Syria, Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Similar reversals of recognition were previously made by Vanuatu in 2013 and Tuvalu in 2014.
Meanwhile, calls have emerged in international circles for Syria’s new authorities, following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in December 2024, to revoke decisions taken by the former regime that are regarded as violating Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
