Lazia, 9 November 2016 — The Lazian Chamber has worked through nine questions of recognition in a single sitting, extending the Confederation’s acknowledgement to five states, withholding it from two and leaving two existing recognitions undisturbed.
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DIPLOMACY Chamber settles nine recognition questions in a single sitting
Four post-Soviet breakaway states and Vatican City are recognised, Donetsk and Luhansk refused, and existing ties with Pavlov and Lostisland maintained.
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Four post-Soviet breakaway territories were recognised together: Abkhazia, on the northern tip of Georgia; South Ossetia, over the southern half of Ossetia; Transnistria, over the strip of land between the Dniester and the Ukrainian border; and Nagorno-Karabakh, over the contested ethnolinguistic area between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
The chamber also recognised Vatican City, acknowledging the sovereignty of the Holy See over Catholic Rome — a question of a rather different order from the frozen conflicts that occupied the rest of the sitting. Recognition of Pavlov and of Lostisland, both long-standing, was reaffirmed without alteration.
Donetsk and Luhansk were refused, each by three votes opposed. In declining the two Ukrainian separatist republics while recognising the older post-Soviet entities, the chamber drew a deliberate line between the two categories.
The settlement did not hold. Mahuset declared neutrality in the renewed war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020 and withdrew its recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh; in 2022, days after condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it voided all four post-Soviet recognitions together.