Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov dismissed on Thursday reports that the Kremlin demanded that El Salvador recognize the former Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
"We didn't ask our Salvadorian colleagues to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia," Lavrov told journalists after talks with Salvadorian Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez Bonilla in Moscow.
"We just discussed the situation around these republics, including the United Nations' repeated efforts to politicize the humanitarian problems that appeared after Georgia attacked South Ossetia and the peacemakers," he said.
Russia recognized the breakaway republics after fighting a five-day war with Georgia in August 2008.
So far, only Venezuela, Nicaragua and the tiny island nation of Nauru have followed suit.
MOSCOW, October 21 (RIA Novosti)
