Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and Nicaragua have signed a cooperation agreement for 2022, the Abkhaz separatist government-run news agency Apsnypress reported.

The agreement was signed following a meeting between de-facto Abkhaz foreign minister Daur Kove and his Nicaraguan counterpart Denis Ronaldo Moncada Colindres.

"A number of issues of mutual interest were discussed at the meeting. Afterwards, a plan for cooperation between Abkhazia and Nicaragua for 2022 was signed. A solemn ceremony was also held to establish brotherly relations between Sukhumi and Managua," the report said.

Kove led an Abkhaz delegation that observed the presidential and parliamentary elections in Nicaragua on 7 November.

Nicaragua recognised the independence of Abkhazia and Georgia's other breakaway region of South Ossetia in 2008 shortly after it was recognised by Russia in the aftermath of the August 2008 Russo-Georgia war. Venezuela, Nauru, and Syria also followed Russia.

Georgia declared South Ossetia and Abkhazia occupied by Russia after it recognised the breakaways.

Praise of Nicaraguan polls

Both breakaways sent delegations to monitor the elections.

The South Ossetian government-run news agency Res (Cominf.org) said on 8 November that both South Ossetian and Abkhaz observers "positively" assessed the voting and that they did not find any "irregularities."

According to Cominf,org, Kove praised the elections as organised at a "high level."

Nicaragua's left-wing President Daniel Ortega, the current longest-serving leader in the Americas, was standing for election as the candidate of the ruling Sandinista Front.

Ortega's wife, First Lady Rosario Murillo, who serves as vice president, was his running mate.