Borodin believes Belarus will recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia

Taking a decision on the issue is a matter of time, state secretary of the “union state” Pavel Borodin thinks.

“I think it will recognize. There’s an established procedure of solving such matters,” Pavel Borodin told Interfax on Tuesday.

According to the state secretary the “Belarusian party is inclined to settling this question positively.”

Borodin supposes after Minsk recognizes Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the union state may be enlarged by the two republics.

It should be noticed that only two states, Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Nauru, have recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka said last September Belarus would recognize independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Experts regard this statement as flirting with the European Union to get new loans.