Tbilisi Wants Putin-Saakashvili Talks ? Minister Says

Tbilisi still wants to arrange a bilateral meeting between the Georgian and Russian presidents, Gela Bezhuashvili, the Georgian foreign minister, said on August 21.

He said the issue was ?still on the agenda? even after the August 6 missile incident.

Both Georgian and Russian officials confirmed in late July that consultation was underway to arrange a meeting of the two presidents sometime in August.

?I can not tell you an exact date. The exact date was not known even before the missile incident,? Bezhuashvili said on August 21. ?We are not reluctant to have a top-level meeting. We will use any type of meeting to clarify all the developments that have taken place in our bilateral relations.?

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