Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili and Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed to meet in Moscow early November, the
Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Tuesday.
"The parties agreed that, during Georgian Foreign Minister Gela
Bezhuashvili's visit to Moscow to take part in a ministerial
meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation organization on
November 1-2, he will meet with his Russian counterpart," it
said.
Irakly Toronjadze, the director of the Foreign Ministry
department dealing with relations with Russia, will also visit
Moscow, along with Bezhuashvili to hold consultations with his
Russian counterparts, it said.
The brief detention of four Russian military officers in Georgia
on spying charges late last month triggered strong protest from
Moscow and added to an already tense relationship between Russia
and Georgia.
Amid the spying row, Russia slapped economic sanctions on the
Caucasus nation and deported Georgians accused of staying in Russia
illegally.
(Xinhua News Agency October 25, 2006)
