Saakashvili Ready to Meet Bagapsh in Tbilisi During U.S. President’s Visit

MP Givi Targamadze told reporters, after talks with U.S. Department of State Senior Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian Conflicts on Steven Mann on April 12, that “Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is ready to meet Sergey Bagapsh [President of breakaway Abkhazia] and Eduard Kokoity [leader of breakaway South Ossetia] in Tbilisi during the visit of [U.S. President] George Bush to Georgia” on May 10.

This statement immediately triggered speculations that Ambassador Mann, who held talks with the Abkhaz leadership in Sokhumi on April 11, invited the breakaway region’s President to travel to Tbilisi during the U.S. President’s visit. Mann, however, said that his visit to Sokhumi had nothing in common with the U.S. President’s planned trip to Georgia.

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