Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh will sign an agreement on cooperation in border protection on April 30, the Abkhaz news agency Apsnipress reported.

The similar agreement will be signed on the same day by Medvedev and South Ossetian leader, Eduard Kokoity, RIA Novosti news agency reported on April 28.

Russia’s President, Dmitry Medvedev, gave his go-ahead to signing of border cooperation treaties with Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia on March 20.

Abkhaz Foreign Minister Sergey Shamba said that the agreement would be one more step towards boosting the relations with Russia, which “actually is a guarantor of peace and stability in the region.”