Abkhazia–Transnistria relations

Abkhazia and Transnistria signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation on 22 January 1993. On 14 June 2006, they formed the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations together with South Ossetia. In 2007, President Sergei Bagapsh of Abkhazia appointed Aleksandr Vataman as Plenipotentiary Representative of Abkhazia in Transnistria. On 7 March 2008, Bagapsh formally issued a decree on the establishment of Abkhazia's Official Representative in Transnistria, and on 18 July 2008, the Representative Office was opened in Tiraspol. Garri Kupalba is the official representative of Transnistria in Abkhazia.