Foreign Minister: Georgia Offers Short-Term Normalisation Agenda to Russia
Speaking to the parliamentary foreign relations and European integration committees, Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili said Georgia is greeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit “calmly, with an open and positive attitude.”
“I can not say that we expect a positive outcome from these talks, this would be an exaggeration taking the current situation [in Russo-Georgian affairs] into account,” Zourabichvili said.
She added that Georgia will offer specific proposals that may help normalize relations between the two countris within the coming three months. “If Georgia and Russia will not embark on the road to normalizing [their] relations in the nearest future, it will be pointless to talk about a framework agreement or something else,” Foreign Minsiter pointed out.
Zourabichvili’s statement follows talks over a framework agreement and withdrawal of the Russian military bases from Georgia that collapsed on February 10-11 in Tbilisi.
