Talks Resume over Russo-Georgian Framework Agreement

A delegation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, led by special Ambassador Igor Salovsky, will arrive in Tbilisi on July 15 to resume talks with the Georgian side over the draft of a framework agreement between Russia and Georgia.

The Presidents of Georgia and the Russian Federation signed a framework agreement about friendship, peaceful relationship and cooperation on November 3, 1994.

The Georgian Parliament ratified this document but Russian Duma Council refused to ratify it, and so the drafting of a new agreement was launched instead.

According to the handshake agreement between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili during the meeting in Moscow on February 11, the new framework agreement is due to be signed during Vladimir Putin?s visit to Georgia, scheduled for sometime this autumn.

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