Abkhazian president-elect Alexander Ankvab to be sworn in
10:12, 26 September 2011
SUKHUMI. September 26. KAZINFORM Abkhazian president-elect Alexander Ankvab will be sworn in on Monday in a ceremony broadcast by the country's television.
Abkhazian parliament speaker Nugzar Ashuba said no foreign guests had been invited.
Ankvab, 58, the winner of Abkhazia's presidential election , earlier said he wants to be sworn in with little pomp, following the death of former president Sergei Bagapsh.
According to RIA Novosti, Ankvab, who was Abkhazia's interior minister in 1992-1993, garnered nearly 55 percent of the vote in the August 26, 2011 election in the tiny mountainous region on the Black Sea coast which declared independence from Georgia in 1999.
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