Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh arrived in Nicaragua on Sunday for an official visit and was welcomed at the airport by Foreign Minister Samuel Santos and an honor guard.
Nicaragua was the second country after Russia to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent after the August 2008 war between Moscow and Tbilisi. South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity is also due in Nicaragua but will arrive later on Sunday after his plane made an emergency landing in Helsinki due to technical problems.
"We see the visit of Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh to Nicaragua as an event of great importance that will serve to strengthen our bilateral ties. The world must understand that any problem should be solved peacefully through dialogue and not by force," Santos told RIA Novosti.
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