Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, will visit Tskhinvali and Sokhumi next week, Russian, Abkhaz and South Ossetian sources reported.

In Tskhinvali Lavrov will meet with breakaway South Ossetia’s leader Eduard Kokoity on April 25 and he will meet Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh in Sokhumi on April 26.

Lavrov visited Sokhumi and Tskhinvali in September, 2008, less than month after Moscow recognized the two breakaway regions’ independence. He was in Sokhumi again in October, 2009.